Keyboard shortcuts initiate when I'm trying to type text. (CS4)

I will try to type text in certain places (such as to name a layer or group in the layers panel or type in a font name in the character panel) and instead of displaying characters, Photoshop will initiate it's keyboard shortcuts. For example, if I try to name a layer "bat", it will leave the layer name blank and it will highlight the brush tool, the selector tool, and then the type tool.
I can type text on my document with the text tool and I can also type the document name in "Save" and "New".
I'm not sure if I've accidently hit something on my keyboard that makes this happen, but I've never had this problem before.
I ran the latest updates. I'm using CS4 on OSX 10.6.8.
Any ideas?

@PECourtejoie
I can highlight the text field, for example, I can double-click a layer name and it will change into a field with a cursor and I can even highlight the current name. However, I did just discover that sometimes I can type a letter once and the following keystrokes will act like a shortcut (whether the same letter or a different one). I then have to place the cursor in another part of the word to make this happen again, but again, it only happens sometimes and for now it seems random.
It will also occasionally delete nearby layers (maybe there's a shortcut that does that, but I'm not sure which keystroke I hit when that happens).
My mouse didn't accidently click elsewhere, it's been consistent for an entire day now.
I looked at my preferences and didn't see anything that would reset them (nor anything that would apply to this). Please let me know how and I will try it.

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