Eject Key makes my MBP Logout and Restart

When I press the Eject Key (uppermost right corner key above Delete and to right of F12), my laptop Logs out and restarts. No warning, no options. A white Eject image (up pointing triangle sitting on a bar) ghosts on the screen for a moment, then the screen goes to blue (all open files are lost of course) and then the deskstop rebuilds itself as in a restart.
I'm dumbfounded. I thought maybe this was a new keyboard feature that I could change with a choice via System Prefs. Not a malfunction.
But I couldn't find it listed anywhere under Keyboard Shortcuts, and I don't see anyone else complaining about this key behavior on the web.
Has anyone had this experience or know what's going on? I changed my keyboard (old one got splashed by water spill and keys would type groups of characters), but the new keyboard behaves the same way.
Can anyone suggest how I might fix this so the Eject Key does not basically reboot my computer? The Eject Key, by the way, does not eject any disk that may be in the slot.

If the new keyboard is acting the same way as the old regarding the eject key, it appears a hardware issue. Take your computer to an Apple Store.

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