Help! Illustrator duplicates everything on drag, as if I'm holding down the Option key.

I have never had this problem before. Whenever I drag an object, it automatically duplicates the object as if I am holding down the Option key. I can move objects with the arrow keys, but if I drag anything with the mouse, it automatically duplicates it.
Please help as this is impossible to work with. I've restarted the coputer as well as Illustrator multiple times. The issue does not happen in InDesign or Photoshop. Just Illustrator. I'm runnin Mac OSX 10.6.
Thank you in advance for your help.

Thank you for your remply emil! It happens when I create a new document with new objects, and it also happens on already existing documents and objects. Yes, the cursor swithces to the double arrows as if I was holding down the Option key. Nothing wrong with the key itself. IT's not stuck or anything.

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I was wondering if someone could help me. I am using Illustrator CS4 on Mac OS X and I am having touble understanding why when I select an object (text block or embedded image) to move it in the artboard it dupliactes itself automatically and I am not pressing the "option" key when dragging the object. Is there a setting that I am missing? What is happening here?
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0xffffff80b0dbb900 : 0xffffff7f8177c6db
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0xffffff80b0dbba10 : 0xffffff7f81778684
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0xffffff80b0dbbb60 : 0xffffff7f81741a4c
0xffffff80b0dbbbc0 : 0xffffff8000655f3e
0xffffff80b0dbbbe0 : 0xffffff800065681a
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