First character missing sometimes when i type

it doesn't happen all the time but when i type something the first letter is missing iv'e noticed it mainly happening in safari
any suggestions? thanks

hmm, mine seems to be fixed
history: ever since 10.4.3 the first character typed after an idle period doesn't register, tried combo updater, 10.4.4, blah blah, problem got more/less frequent but still hit several times a day
three days ago by chance i ran disk utility and selected "verify disk", it said i had an "illegal name" and bailed, booting the tiger dvd and running disk utility could not fix it, nor could booting single user und using fsck
some surfing turned up an issue linked to vietnamese characters in filenames that are installed as part of adobe creative suite 2 (and also in some standalone cs2 apps)
this causes problems that once present can eventually result in serious damage to the disk structure, disk warrior was cited as being able to detect/fix the damage (apparently several other similar apps will not do it)
two days ago i got dw, it showed several of the adobe-linked issues as well as a few other (imho minor) things, it fixed the disk
since then the missing keystroke problem seems to be fixed too
maybe this is just chance, maybe the zillion reboots did it, maybe starting single user did it, could be anything really
so i decided to carry out the ultimate test and tempt fate by posting that mine seems ok now
i'm not suggesting dw fixes the missing keystroke, but if you have any adobe cs2 apps it might be worth seeing if disk utility shows any issues when you choose the "verify disk" option

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