Applescript keystroke

I created a applescript to automatic fill the login information for a webpage. I made it four months ago and it works fine untill a month aprox. The problem is very wierd, It fills the first field, the username, using the command "keystroke" and it does but not in the right order.
My username is "rsolanilla" and it types "srolanilla" most of the times and other combinations much less often. It types ok some times too, but is quite random.
I use it into a automator application, but I tested from applescript and automator and the results are the same.
This is the part of code I talked about:
tell application "Safari"
    activate
    set thisDocument to make new document at end of documents
    do JavaScript "window.open('" & mainURL & "')" in thisDocument
    tell application "System Events"
        tell application process "Safari"
            delay 3
            -- keystroke (ASCII character 9) — tab character
           keystroke mainLogin
            --delay 1
            keystroke (ASCII character 9) -- tab character
            --delay 1
            keystroke mainPword
            keystroke (ASCII character 13) -- this equals return
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

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Hi Piere,
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