Escape key problems.

My escape key has been freaking out on me lately. It seems to randomly decide to press itself down very rapidly, and it continues to do so until I press the key myself, fairly hard. The key isn't jammed or anything. Is there anything I can do to fix this, short of paying a rediculous price to get a new keyboard. This escape key problem makes even the most simple action a chore.
By the way, I'm using a Lenovo 3000 n100.
Message Edited by PSOCecil on 05-23-2008 06:12 PM

Yes, they told me they didn't do any laptop work. And I sent it in when it was still under warenty, asking them to look at both my non-working USB drives (that were causing a odd power problem and causin the computer to not start), and my weird escape key. They seemed to of forgotten the escape key, and just looked at the USB drives. It's not under warenty any more, and I don't want to send it back to them again, after the ordeal I had to go through last time.

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