Keyboard repeat goes to special characters

Hello,
Noticed since i upgraded to OSX 10.7, that when i hold down a key on the keyboard, a little box pops up that shows special characters that corrsepond to that specific letter. For example, when i hold down the letter "o", i get options for the following letters: ôöòóœøōõ
is there anyway to change the settings so that the letters will repeat when i hold down a letter?
Thanks All.
~Brandon

Ditto - thanks for the Terminal command.  I had been resetting, rebooting, cleaning, etc., and no results.  Now, I don't know exactly when the repeat problem arose, but I became aware of it when a few of my keys on my MBPro were reluctant or didn't work.  I then "discovered" the repeating problem.  The problem keys had cleared up but now I was faced with the repeat issue - may have been there a while since one doesn't use the fast repeat that often.  All better now...
Tom

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