My Shortcut Keys are not Working

Hi everybody.
I was working on a project for the past couple of days. All of a sudden my "JKL" keys are not working. My "spacebar" will start and stop a clip, but the JKL keys have no effect. Also, none of my other shortcut keys will work.
The keys work when I go to another application.
I trashed my preferences and emptied the trash... no change.
Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks in advance and Happy Thanksgiving!
Brian

Hi Stuckfootage- thanks for responding.
Should have mentioned that I restarted/rebooted a couple of times and even turned the machine off.
No luck...
Brian

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