Re:How do I stop this Strange behavior?

I am using a Mac Pro with OSX 10.5.1 software in a recording studio environment. Everything has run smoothly for over two years. I have encountered a strange problem that appeared out of nowhere several weeks ago. Here's an example: Let's say I click on the apple logo on the taskbar. A box appears. I then click on "about my mac". I click on that and a box appears with the info on the computer. Now here's where it gets wierd. I cannot close the box even though the red x lights up when the arrow touches it. What happens is the file box on the taskbar opens right next to the x on the open mac box. Now wherever I click on the desktop the file menu options appear next to the arrow. This happens on the desktop and on all applications. When I try to drag an icon on the desktop the menu appears saying "open, create new folder," etc. Ordinarily when I click on an icon in the dock, the application opens. When this strange phenomena occurs a bubble appears and says things like "Open, open at log in", etc. Where is all this coming from and what can I do to get rid of it? I'm currently working on a big recording project and this problem has slowed me down to a crawl. PLEASE HELP!!

It sounds like one of the modifier keys, probably the control key is stuck on. Do you ever allow food or drink in the studio? You may have goo in one of the control keys.
Keyboard Viewer can help you diagnose this:
System Preferences > International/Languages and Text > | Input Sources | ...
... check the box at the bottom: [√] Show Input Menu in Menu Bar
then go to the little flag in the menu bar and choose Keyboard Viewer.

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