My keyboard has gone crazy!  Please help!

I just bought my iMac G5 earlier this month, right before the new iMacs came out. It has been working fine until two days ago. The keyboard stopped working, as in you cannot type anything, but if you click the mouse in the address bar of the safari browser or any other text area, you will see that the spacebar or random letters will write themselves over and over again. If you just happen to nudge or lift the keyboard off of the desk, the volume will sky-rocket and this annoying beeping will ensue. I went into my disc utility and verified and repaired my volumes and it did find errors and it did correct them. After that my keyboard worked again. Last night I came home and found that my iMac's keyboard was at it again and making those horrible error noises and the keyboard did not work. I want to wipe my HD with my startup disc but I cannot access that since I need the C button to initiate the process. As I said before, this is a very new machine and I have very little files on it, which have already been backed up, so it shouldn't be a memory problem. I will probably be calling the help line tonight, but any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Oh and I forgot to mention, it is not a wireless keyboard.

You still have time left on your phone tech help, so call Apple and discuss this with them. It sounds like a faulty keyboard that needs to be replaced or an internal problem, but whatever it is, let Apple sort it out for you.

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