IMac Aluminum keyboard numbers not working.. Works in windows vista though

Hey Everyone,
I have an iMac running the last version of Leopard (10.5.6) and for some reason the 0-9 keys on the keyboard don't show up as numbers. I'm talking about the number pad on the right hand side of the keyboard, the ones in front of the qwerty keys work fine.. Whenever I press a number in Leopard on the number pad it does weird things like highlights the box, brings up sub menus and other stuff like that.
I have Bootcamp on this computer and when I boot into Vista the number keys work fine so I know it's nothing wrong with the keyboard. It some preference. Could anyone help me please?
Thanks,
-Mike

Thanks again! I went through the system preferences and sticky keys was already off. I own an iMac Aluminum and it looks like that article only was for MacBook and MacBook Pro computers. I also tired resetting the PRAM. If I only backed up I could just restore from that. My current NAS Drive (Western Digital MyBook World) just died so I purchased a time capsule as a replacement so I should be able to back up now and avoid problems like this..
It's just some setting in Leopard somewhere but I just can't figure out where...

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