Numeric keypad strangeness

Just recently (over the past 4 months or so) I have been seeing strange things with the numeric keypad on the Apple wired keyboard. I have a mid-2010 iMac (27", 3.6 GHz i5, 12 GB RAM, running Mountain Lion. What I am seeing is that when I use the numeric keypad to enter data, the cursor will move to a different field, seemingly on its own volition. I have seen this behavior in Quicken 2007, Excel:Mac 2011, and Safari, so it looks to be more at the system level (or the keyboard). Does anyone have any ideas to fix this?
Thank you in advance.

Step one is to log into a newly created admin user account and see if the problem persists. If so, then step two is to try another keyboard.
iMac refurb (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), SL & ML, G4 450 MP w/Leopard, 9.2.2

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