Why have keyboard shortcuts quit functioning - quit, copy, paste, new, hide

I all of a sudden have lost the use of most all of my keyboard shortcuts that I am sooooooooo accustomed to. The apple key shortcuts mostly will not work - occassionally some work, but the problem occurs in the finder as well as applications like work xL photoshop firefox etc etc. I have logged out and logged in as a different user but the problem persists - driving me crazy - when i go to keyboard shortcuts in system preferences it shows no shortcuts under application shortcuts/all applications. Have i done something drastically wrong? Can the shortcuts be restored? Help Please email me directly at gerard @ tetonartgallery.com if you care.

I changed the key repeat rate to slow and turned off the delay until repeat and the problem seems to be fixed. As i thought about what had changed when the problem began one thing was changing those keyboard preferences. I think i will be able to live with what i have -- THNAK YOU my typing skills suck, but the keyboard appears to be respojnding --- will i eventually have to replace this board or may it keep on KEEPING on? THANK YOU THANK YOU _ it is great to have people out there to bounce problems off of.

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