Help! My keyboard is acting strange : (

Help! My keyboard is acting strange. I just moved and when I started to type in my Mac Book Pro after not using it for a few weeks, every time I typed certain letters, two other letters in the same column appear (eg: when I type c, edc appear or frv when I type r). Numbers seems to work well though. Any ideas?

When you moved did you pack up your mac and did it have anything pressing on the lid and keyboard area?
Try a SMC reset and if that doesn't fix it you need to go to apple and probably have the keyboard replaced.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

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Keyboard is Acting Strangly!

When I go to press the following keys, the output onto the computer is something different for the following keys
o     ->     ou
u     ->     ou
j      ->      jl
m    ->     m.
.      ->     m.
7     ->     79
9     ->     79
and finally the Right Arrow button outputs the number 2
please help me....

Language settings correct? Keyboard input country is correct?
Otherwise I'm guessing it's a bluetooth keyboard?
Try creating a new user account & see if the same issues occur.
Also resetting the SMC http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

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aaron78: Follow the advice in the section "My Zen is not behaving properly, won't startup, or goes into rescue mode. What should I do?" in the FAQ.
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To make a long story short, I tried to run disc utility and it froze on me again when it finished. I had to hard start it (and again, and again, and again...)and it won't go past the first screen UNLESS I let it sit turned off for at least 5 minutes. Once I do manage to get it turned on, it acts fine for maybe a half and hour or so until it slows down (thinking gets labored) and freezes on me again.
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Thank you BGreg.
I have 27GB free out of my 80GB drive, so no issue there...
I tried to do the boot up with the OS X install cd witn no luck. I was on the phone with AppleCare last night for over an hour and after trying many different things, it seems I am going to have to mail it in for repairs.
Here I was hoping it'd be something simple.
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I'm using Safari 5.0.6 on OS X 10.5.8... thanks!

I don't see anything in your post regarding the Safari cache. BTW, a "reset" does not empty the cache.
From your Safari menu bar click Safari / Empty Cache. Restart your Mac, try Safari.
If that didn't help, quit Safari if it's open.
Go to ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari
Move the Cache.db (or ApplicationCache.db) file from the com.apple.Safari folder to the Trash.
Try Safari.
If nothing above helped, make sure there's enough free space on the startup disk. Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you have a minimum of 15% free disk space.
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Launch Disk Utility. Select the startup disk in the panel on the left then select the First Aid tab.
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Puede que se haya averiado. Llévalo a tu centro Apple más cercano. A lo mejor es problema de las canciones. Prueba formatearlo y luego meter otras canciones. Si pasa lo mismo será mejor hacer lo que te he comentado antes. Espero ayudarte y suerte con tu problema.
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PD. ¿Eres español? Por favor vótame soy nuevo en esto y tengo muchos cocnocimientos pero la gente no me responde. Gracias y otro saludo.

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