Repeating keyboard characters problem

Discussion got archived before I solved it. I have installed a Macally keyboard & solved my problem after 2 successive Apple keyboards demonstrated same issues. This matches with other users solutions to the problem.
Apple - you need to come clean or fix this problem - unless 100+ WPM is too fast for you.

definitely NOT just a bluetooth keyboard issue. I have the USB version of the thin apple keyboard, and I also get the repeated key issue from time to time. sometimes it happens once a day, other times it happens 10+ times an hour.
And it isn't just a single key repeat like ttime or appple, sometime it repeats whole strings like hellohello or startart.
i love the keyboard and so many people that come to my shop always take note about how cool it looks, but this issue is definitely a weird one.
And I don't even type 100+ WPM. I am very slow, and it still seems to do weird repeated key buffering. Very annoying when I am coding in PHP. I would rather the coding mistakes be ones I make, and not the keyboard.

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Hi(Bonjour)!
Everyone know the problem of losy keyboard layout when Final Cut is used with foreight language keyboard. We loose the COMMAND-Q shorcut.
As PieroF suggested in many posts in final cut express forum, there is a workaround:
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