Sticky arrow keys on T510 all of a sudden?

Hi
Out of nowhere my Arrow keys and the two keys next to the up arrow have become very sticky. By this, I mean they dont press as smoothly and freely as they did, and they take much longer to return to completely unpressed. They feel spongy! they do work, but feel horrible.
I recently took out the keyboard to get to the wifi card, this is the only time I can think of anything happening. But I have taken out the keyboard and checked again its all in the right place. I blew some compressed air under the keys, which seemed to do the job for about 5 minutes.
very odd, and my return key had a similar thing ealrier.
Does anyone have any ideas?

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