Keyboard - intermittent failures when typing Pavilion d4496t

Pavilion d4496t
Intel Dual Core
While typing, every fifth character or so would fail to type. Purchased a third party keyboard assuming that the error was with the HP keyboard.
Error is still apparent. (I've had to retype several times even in this short description.)
Any help would be appreciated. (I'm having a great HP week - tx1000 Laptop dying and now this keyboard issue.)

Hi Bill,
I think that your palm area might be touching the touchpad when you are typing faster and that might be making the cursor to jump from one place to the other. Can you please try disabling the touchpad and try typing faster and see whether the issue happens or not? This is not a solution but just to understand what is causing this issue. It definitely does not look like a software or a hardware issue to me with the information you have given.
You can disable the touchpad by double tapping the top left corner of it.
I am waiting to hear back from you.
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