Keys don't work; 4 5 6 + up/down arrow and right shift

Some keys stopped working the num keypad 4 5 6 + 9 (the whole row), the up and down arrow and the right shift. All other keys work
I saw a post with the exact same problem, however with no solution, which makes me wonder if it's a configuration thing?
I went into the keyboard shortcut settings and hit restore defaults, the computer has been restarted many times. I looked at the international settings (input tab) and noticed that "character palette" with unicode script is selected along with u.s. keyboard roman script. I assume this is correct ( I unchecked character pallett" just to see what would happen, no help, so I checked it back on.
please help.....

Dear Daddy Paycheck
Your comment "a cheap" usb keyboard would work made me realize that I don't need to go to apple and purchase a new keyboard just to troubleshoot
I just figured that it had to be an "apple" keyboard, silly me!
so I just went and got my old compaq keyboard from my old computer in the trash pile. heck, a few quick requests to push the z and ? keys and it works great.
the apple now has tears on it, cause of the compaq keyboard, but too bad, it shouldn't have broke!!!! this compaq keyboard is 9 years old and still works great, why would I go spend $30 on another apple keyboard that only lasts 1 year??!
g5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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