The top row of keys got messed up?

tried to turn up my volume with the volume up button and it did the expose thing.  After pressing more keys i come to find out that the whole top row of my keyboard is messed up. none of the buttons work how they should. how do i fix this?

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard tab > uncheck "Use all Fkeys as standard function keys."

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