KEYBOARD PROBLEM ON I-MAC 8,1

I cannot access some keys on my keyboard, specially the upper ones like the numbers and those symbols above them... How do i fix this?

Hello, see if you can set them with any of these...
I think Spark cured this for another person and the same problem...
http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele
http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/

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