Talking Computer that won't shut up!

OK I have been using Leopard since Friday and for the most part liking it except for my Western Digital MyBook hardrives no longer shutting down. Here is something that just started about an half hour ago when I was listening to iTunes radio. I turned off the radio and now wherever I move the mouse the computer "speaks" and tells me what is in the folder or what the size of the image is, etc. No settings were changed today by me today! I restarted the machine. Speakable items is off in the system preferences yet it is telling me everything I touch with the mouse. Help! Unfortunately I was not smart enough to archive my machine while running Tiger. Any ideas?
Thanks

It sounds like you've enabled VoiceOver.
Go to Universal Access preferences in System Preferences - click the 'Seeing' tab. Select 'Off' for VoiceOver.
The default keyboard shortcut for turning it on is quite obscure, so not sure how you accidentally turned it on?

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