Very weird keyboard behaviour

Hi,
A friend of mine has a problem where when he types 1, 2, 3 to 0 numbers, the mac automatically converts it on the fly to words.... "one", "two" etc. It's a brand new mac, he re-installed the OS without migrating old software back and the issue is still there even in the setup screen.
I have never heard of this happening... ever!
Any help greatly appreciated.
Jay

Greetings!
I have the latest OS X (10.5.7) and am having a lot of trouble with FireFox and Opera and even with Safari on certain websites. I'd use Safari exclusively but it always crashes when I accidentally click on an adobe acrobat pdf document.
I am happily typing away on gmail or facebook or any text window on a website and then make a mistake and Iook up and see it hasn't even finished displaying the characters of the next to the last word I typed. It is infuriating to say the least when I am trying to get a message out quickly. Hitting backspace or back arrow is excruciating so I hafta use the mouse to get the cursor on the mistake.
What is going on?! I miss my 8MHz IBM PC w/128KB of RAM. At least it could quickly display what I was typing.

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jacobopantoja wrote:
ruurdkrekt wrote:Good evening,
When I connect to this new install with putty over SSH everything is going fine and my keyboard works.
However when I connect via putty to the 'lights out' service of this VPS and thus reach some kind of TTY environment the keyboard behaviour is totally different!
What I understand is that you are having no problems with SSH, but you are having with PuTTY. Is that right? If so, try playing with PuTTY's settings.
I do use putty to connect to SSH and to the 'lights out'-service of the VPS the arch install is hosted. So in my opinion in both cases it should work the same. However the 'lights out'-service looks as if you are directly connected to the machine via a keyboard and monitor. You also will see all the boot information and the services being started. When it is done booting it will display the login view. I believe you call all of what I just explained a TTY, am I correct?
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First of all, i would like to apologize because of my english, is not very good. My native language is Spanish.
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