Won't allow hold down delete (Mtn Lion)

For whatever reason, I can't press and hold down my delete key. It stops after deleting one character, rather than continuing on. The same goes for my arrow keys. If I hit shift twice, a white arrow appears locking everything into an "alt" key stage where all words are caplocks and all secondary characters become main. If I press command, a white command symbol appears and I don't even know what happens.
How do I make this stop?

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