Keyboard glitch--number pad with SL

One computer, two drives with two different OSX versions; one Leopard and one Snow Leopard. It keeps me from having all my eggs in one basket.
One keyboard. The extended aluminum slab.
Booting in SL causes the number pad's numbers to fail to work. Booting in 10.5 Leopard has them working just fine.
Before installing SL over the previous OSX, they worked fine. All the other keys work just fine in both versions.
I've tried to find anything similar on this in the discussions, but either nothing's there or I missed it. How can I get my keyboard functional in SL?

I don't know if SL boots up with that check box checked as the default or what. Maybe I was fooling with it months ago and the SL install simply inherited it.
Wouldn't it be nice if potentially mind-warping settings like this were the subject of a poster when SL booted up from a restart?
"Here are a bunch of Gotchas you may have implemented:
• Your Mouse Keys feature is ON. This may drive you stupid!
• You have shut OFF your Wi Fi. Good luck with that!
• Did you know you have set in motion the mother of all
time consuming memory tests? Would you like us to stop it?"

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