Shutdown screen and Volume level screens keep popping up

My friends Macbook 13" 2.4 GHz Intel core 2 duo running Os 10.5.8 is having problems. The screen "Are you sure you want to shutdown your computer now ?", keeps popping up. If you click cancel, it will pop up again in a few minutes and remain until some action is taken. Also underneath it, the speaker volume level screen pops up. If you leave the shutdown screen on, the speaker volume screen will continue to pop in and out. I booted from a external drive by USB with Os 10.6.8  and the screens after computer starts, still pop up.  ANYONE HAVE SOME INSIGHT ON WHATS CAUSING THIS? I don't think it's software related.
ANY INFO APPRECIATED

Thanks for your Suggestions BDAqua, but it looks like possibly the top case and keyboard will have to be replaced. I cloned the internal drive to an external drive, and rebooted with the external. Then did a partitioning and clean Os install to the original internal drive.  After removing the external and booting off the new software install on the internal, the problem is still there.
Regards,
Granma187

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