[SOLVED(kind of)] Typing 'install' anywhere in Arch turns Caps Lock on

This is a strange one. Anytime I type the word install, whether X apps or apps running outside of X, Caps Lock is turned on, including the light on my keyboard. My keyboard is 'Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 v1'. The text I see, either in bash or an app running on X, is 'instALL' when this happens.
This does not happen on Windows, nor has it done this in other distros (PCLinuxOS). The keyboard is relatively new, does not appear to have any stuck keys, doesn't exhibit any other strange behavior, etc. Am I out of my mind or is this some obscure thing that is only mentioned in dark corners or back-alleys?
Last edited by willbprog127 (2011-11-16 18:34:56)

b4data wrote:That certainly seems odd. Are you able to modify the behaviour using xmodmap?
Yes, I tried changing the Caps Lock to Delete, just for the fun of it, and instead of 'instALL' I would get 'instll'.
b4data wrote:
When you say
apps running outside of X
you do mean in a tty, yes? In any event, what DE/WM/DM are you using? Have you anything in your .xinitrc, .bash_profile, rc.local et cetera that you may have set up for modifying your previous (presumably correctly working) keyboard?
Yes, the behavior is in a tty as well as any X program. I am using a custom setup with fluxbox, lxpanel and pcmanfm. I have not made any changes to my .xinitrc, .bash_profile, rc.local that would cause this. I do use numlockx for turning on the NumLock, but that's it.

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