Selection Tools: unexpected duplicate objects & paths (CS5)

Hello,
Illustrator has gone insane.. Anytime I use either Selection Tool, the object or the path selected is automatically duplicated and the original object/path is left untouched. Example: I create a square shape object; select the object with the Selection Tool and try to move it. The original square remains as it was and a new square is created.
Any suggestions? I've tried rebuilding Illustrator Preferences any number of times in a variety of ways but nothing helps.
Thanks,
Shaun

I thought the same and I switched out the keyboard, but no change.
However I then ran a 'deep clean' with Applejack (a single-user troubleshooter tool for Mac OS) and after a restart all appears to be normal. I suspect there was a corrupted cache file somewhere which was making Adobe apps think the alt key was down.. (Odd that no other apps had issues though.)
At any rate the issue has been resolved and hopefully the post will help someone else someday.
-S

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