Keyboard/Mouse Unresponsive

Anyone else having a problem with the keyboard missing the first few characters you type into a text field, address bar, search bar, or any other input field?
Also, I use a usb mouse and occasionally it will fire clicks uncontrollably until I restart the computer.
I've sent the computer in to get this stuff fixed, but it didn't help. Anyone know how to fix this stuff?

Hi,
the problem actually is an old one, and nobody seems to know how to fix it... See this thread for a few stories, including mine (a thread with hundreds of reports concerning this problem was deleted by Apple after the issue was fixed by the EFI-Firmware update for some but not all users):
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8492642#8492642
I can't comment on your mouse problem, but I have pretty much given up on the keyboard thing being fixed. Let's hope for Snow Leopard.
Cheers,
Thomas

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