Keys won't repeat

Downloaded Lion the other day and when I press and hold a key down, it won't repeat. I went into system preferences to 'change key' repeat to fast and 'delay until repeat' to short, but that didn't fix it. And my friend was having the same issue.
So basically, if I want to consecutively repeat a letter, I have to keep pressing it, releasing it, pressing it, etc. Anyone else having the same problem? Any fix to this?

In this thread
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3190706
got a fix in terminal.
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