IBook starts typing strange characters

For seemingly no reason my iBook G4 switches over to typing nonsense characters at random times. I'll be midsentence and all of a sudden it types gibberish. Sometimes if I wait a bit it'll go back, but sometimes it lasts hours. Occasionally it switches back and forth, typing some normal letters and some weird characters. This seems to be going along with an issue when I startup of an unusual menu coming up that has a picture of the HD and a Refresh arrow on the left underneath and a right-pointing arrow (--->) on the right.
Obviously not being able to type is a huge problem and I can't seem to find any info on similar problems. Any ideas?

Wow -- this is really weird, and the problem must be relatively common for lots of Tiger users!
The DEFAULT Keyboard shortcuts for BOTH the SPOTLIGHT Window AND to move from one kind of keyboard to another is Command-Option-Space. I had selected three optional keyboards in the INTERNATIONAL LIST because I sometimes type Spanish or Portuguese documents.
Sometimes (who knows when) when I thought I was summoning SPOTLIGHT window, I was shifting to another keyboard configuration.
For the time being, I have disabled the keyboard shortcut (which you can get to from either the Keyboard or the International panes of the System Preferences. But I'm wondering now how to change the key assignment for the OS shortcuts (I know how to do it inside some appllications, of course, but not how to CHANGE OS-level shortcuts.
Anyway, thanks Neil for solving the big problem.
bruce
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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          if(prodId == ((Product) (producten.elementAt(q))).getProductId()) {
            aantal++;
        int pId = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getProductId();
        String tNaam = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getTypeNaam();
        String tit = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getTitel();
        String omschr = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getOmschrijving();
        double pr = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getPrijs();
        int hoev = ((Product) (producten.elementAt(i))).getStock();
        FormProduct formProduct = new FormProduct(pId,tNaam,tit,omschr,pr,hoev,aantal);
        lijst.addElement(formProduct);
      return lijst;
    public double berekenTotaal() {
      double totaal = 0;
      for(int i = 0 ; i < producten.size() ; i++) {
        Product p = (Product) producten.elementAt(i);
        totaal = totaal + p.getPrijs();
      return totaal;
    public ByteArrayOutputStream fix() throws DocumentException {
         Vector vector = genereerFormLijst();
         Document doc = new Document();
          ByteArrayOutputStream baosPDF = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
          PdfWriter docWriter = null;
          try
               docWriter = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, baosPDF);
               doc.addAuthor("author");
               doc.addCreationDate();
               doc.addProducer();
               doc.addCreator(Variabelen.getPdfAuteur());
               doc.addTitle("BESTELLING");
               doc.setPageSize(PageSize.LETTER);
               HeaderFooter footer = new HeaderFooter(
                                   new Phrase("BESTELLING     ID:           GEPLAATST DOOR:"),
                                   false);
               doc.setFooter(footer);
               doc.open();
               for(int i = 0 ; i < vector.size() ; i++) {
               doc.add(new Paragraph( ((FormProduct) vector.elementAt(i)).getProductId() ));
               doc.add(new Paragraph(
                              "This document was created on "
                              + new java.util.Date()));
          catch (DocumentException dex)
               baosPDF.reset();
               throw dex;
          finally
               if (doc != null)
                    doc.close();
               if (docWriter != null)
                    docWriter.close();
          if (baosPDF.size() < 1)
               throw new DocumentException(
                    "document has "
                    + baosPDF.size()
                    + " bytes");
          return baosPDF;
}the code of the JSP-file
<html>
<head>
</head>
<%@ page import="java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.PrintWriter"%>
<%@ page import="be.steppe.cursusdienst.instellingen.Variabelen"%>
<%@ page import="be.steppe.cursusdienst.beans.WinkelWagen"%>
<%@ page import="be.steppe.cursusdienst.Product"%>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.lowagie.text.*" %>
<%@ page import="com.lowagie.text.pdf.*" %>
<jsp:useBean class="WinkelWagen" id="winkelWagen" scope="session" />
<body>
<%
ByteArrayOutputStream baosPDF = null;
try
               baosPDF = winkelWagen.fix();
               StringBuffer sbFilename = new StringBuffer();
               sbFilename.append("filename_");
               sbFilename.append(System.currentTimeMillis());
               sbFilename.append(".pdf");
               response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=30");
               response.setContentType("application/pdf");
               StringBuffer sbContentDispValue = new StringBuffer();
               sbContentDispValue.append("inline");
               sbContentDispValue.append("; filename=");
               sbContentDispValue.append(sbFilename);
               response.setHeader("Content-disposition",sbContentDispValue.toString());
               response.setContentLength(baosPDF.size());
               ServletOutputStream sos;
               sos = response.getOutputStream();
               baosPDF.writeTo(sos);
               sos.flush();
          catch (DocumentException dex)
               response.setContentType("text/html");
               PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
               writer.println(
                         this.getClass().getName()
                         + " caught an exception: "
                         + dex.getClass().getName()
                         + "<br>");
               writer.println("<pre>");
               dex.printStackTrace(writer);
               writer.println("</pre>");
          finally
               if (baosPDF != null)
                    baosPDF.reset();
%>
</body>
          </html>can anyone please help me out ...
gr
Steppe

ok,
I removed the html tags in the jsp-file and now acrobat reader does start.
but it says the pdf file is damaged and cannot be repaired ...
any ideas?
gr
Steppe

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The document: https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/71fb561e-78a2-44ae-8bd6-9df6520e9d1b
The box I was talking about is the very last one.
The Adobe ReaderI started using recently is version XI; the one I used when I started editing the document was Windows 8 Reader app by Microsoft, version 6.2.8516.0.

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