Weird keyboard behaviour in TO; field

My keyboard behaves very weirdly when I try to enter a second address to the To: field. It will type multiple characters like:
aararararararararararararararararararararararararar
when I hit the letter a once followed by the delete key. I can not enter any second address by typing.
The only way I can additional addresses by using the cc: field to enter the second address and then dragging the address to the To: field.
Anybody else see this?

Not exactly. I posted another (though similar) issue with the address and subject fields in another post: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1248066&tstart=0
So far I and the others that have experienced this problem have not found a viable solution, unfortunately.

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