KEYBOARD WEIRDNESS DRIVING ME INSANE PLEASE HELP

Hey,
I bought my Macbook Pro about three months ago, and I am absolutely anal about taking care of it.
Recently, my spacebar and my caps lock keys have began sporadically not working. I'll be typing and then all of a sudden the spacebar will just fail (So I'll be typing and it will be like "Oh hey do youwantto go out tothe place later?"). And then over a period of about two minutes it will gradually work less and less frequently until it stops working completely. When the spacebar goes into this mode, the caps lock button does too. They don't seem to do it independently, but at the same time, no other keys are affected.
There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to this malfunction. The only pattern that I noticed is that it usually happens when I'm typing in World of Warcraft (yeah I know im a loser don't rub it in). However, it's not always the case. It has happened several times when the program isn't open and has not been opened since the computer has been turned on.
Also, once it does happen, there doesn't seem to be any way to make it start working again. It always comes back eventually, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do, I just have to wait it out. I've tried restarting the laptop, shutting it down completely and letting it sit for awhile, taking out the batteries, trying to blow anything out that might be under the keys themselves (even though I doubt there's anything there because I take such good care of it), tapping the button repeatedly, etc. Nothing seems to work. And since I can't find any patterns, I really can't tell if this is a hardware problem or software problem.
Someone help me PLEASE I'm going out of my mind. I can't get an appointment at the apple store for several days but I need my computer for work this week and and waiting that long is really not an option. Thanks so much in advance.

Hi Tuffcookie1877, welcome to Apple Discussions!
It almost definitely sounds like a hardware problem to me, I'm sorry to say. You'll likely have to have the keyboard replaced under warranty. I can't think of any software problems that would cause a sporadic spacebar malfunction.
--Travis

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    Keep plugging away. We seldom have people strike out around here.
    Allan
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