A whole row of the keyboard is not working!

Hi I bought a 27" iMac in january... and this week the keyboard has been acting strange!
the row of (z x c v b n m , .) plus right shift and left arrow are not working!!!
I found an old thread of this exact same thing, but it's archived and it was never resolved!
http://https://discussions.apple.com/message/12579523?messageID=12579523
Does anyone have a clue on what's going on???
thanks in advanced
ps: it took foverer writing this with an on screen keyboard!!!

Well, just bought a Microsoft keyboard...  And I'm gonna take the apple one to service, it's still under warranty... But it's to bad that the quality on the apple wireless keyboard is so bad, that i doesn't even last half a year!

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