Randomly inserts the letter E without me pressing it

As of today, my 1st gen black MacBook has randomly started typing the letter E without me pressing the keyboard. Sometimes it inserts lots of Es when I press the E key once, sometimes it does it when I press other keys and other times it just starts inserting E when I haven't even touched the keyboard in a while (I had to delete at least 20 extra Es in order to type this).
I have a lot of work to do (which unfortunately involves a lot of typing) so taking it to an Apple Store is out of the question right now.
I have tried the following:
* Restarting the machine
* Switching it off, turning it upside down and (gently) shaking it to see if any dust or crumbs came out
* Checking if the key was stuck down - it wasn't
* Checking if the key moved freely - it did
* Blowing underneath the key
* Switching the repeat rate to Long - this reduced it for a while but it is worse than ever now
This is my second keyboard after my delete key suddenly stopped working one day, so given that history, I would imagine it is most likely a hardware problem that I will have to put up with for the time being until I have an opportunity to get it fixed. Is there anything else I can attempt before then?
P.S. I really don't want to take the key off because I don't want to break it (which is what happened with my old PowerBook). I am confident that there is nothing stuck underneath it though.

My computer is doing the same thing but with 9's! it did it a few weeks ago but then stopped ..I had restarted, zapped the pram, and cleaned out the keyboard by shaking it and blowing it with air and vacuuming it.. its also making sounds.. sometimes it will just make the alert sound one time.. sometimes it will make it like its stuck! it did it a few weeks ago, then stopped and now did it again today! so it may come back on yours also... I wish someone could tell me what is wrong..
I did post a question asking about this today...
Rebecca T.

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