Keyboard Malfunctions 1 week outside warranty

Greetings:
(First off, I checked out the helpful troubleshooting hints page on Keyboard malfunctions when logging on here. No go.)
Just one week after my eMac's 1-year warranty expired, my keyboard's suddenly lost registering the left-right-down arrow keys, the keypad's 0,1,2,3, Enter and period keys. No drops, no spills. The only remotely possible "cause" is plugging in my Gizmo flash drive into the USB port and getting that "bad power, shutting this USB port down" message, but I've had that before without problems. Still, could've that scrambled some internal keyboard drivers somehow? I dunno. Just fishing!
If the keyboard's corrupted but good -- even after some last ditch surgery, can anyone recommend some (cheap!!) keyboard sources for a replacement?
Thank you all!
James Greenidge

Greetings:
A question to the true Mac techies (or engineers!) please!
What could cause an eMac's original keyboard to just suddenly stop registering a whole bank of keys (left-right-down arrow keys, the keypad's 0,1,2,3, Enter and period keys) without any drops or liquid spills or crumbs ever being involved? Could plugging in an USB device into the keyboard's USB port "the wrong way" cause a minor short-cicuit that would zap the keyboard's control circuitry? Any theory would be conforting. In my world, nothing happens without SOME cause!
Thanks a mint!
James Greenidge

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