Intermittent lock up of key strokes

Hi, I just bought my Macbook last December with the newer Santa Rosa chipset. I noticed when I'm running Firefox and Adium, once in a while (maybe once every week) it'll lock up all the keys and I couldn't type anything. I had to power down and power it back up and then things are fine.
I tried reinstalling both and the same issue remained. Any thoughts? Should I reinstall Leopard completely?
I also found another issue.....I installed Office for Mac and everytime when I started Word or Excel or Powerpoint, it'll give me an error message. I clicked OK, and then everything's fine. I can use Word, Excel, PP, no problem. Any thoughts if it's also related?
Thanks so much!

iambb8 wrote:
Hi, I just bought my Macbook last December with the newer Santa Rosa chipset. I noticed when I'm running Firefox and Adium, once in a while (maybe once every week) it'll lock up all the keys and I couldn't type anything. I had to power down and power it back up and then things are fine.
I tried reinstalling both and the same issue remained. Any thoughts? Should I reinstall Leopard completely?
If Safari works normally, it's probably not a Leopard issue but some other software that uses Firefox and Adium.
I also found another issue.....I installed Office for Mac and everytime when I started Word or Excel or Powerpoint, it'll give me an error message. I clicked OK, and then everything's fine. I can use Word, Excel, PP, no problem. Any thoughts if it's also related?
Exactly what is the error message?
You may have a corrupt file.
Use the disk utility to check the disk and also verify/repair permissions.
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