Space Bar on keyboard malfunction

The keyboard space bar on my 17" G4 Powerbook stopped working...
Anyone have this problem? Any ideas on how to fix?
Any advice, regarding this issue, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Powerbook G4 - 17 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

What are the symptoms.... is it sticky, did you spill on it? If it's neither try restarting the computer, running disk utility, and if none of that works take it to the apple store to get fixed.

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