Inspiron 6000 Keyboard

I am having trouble with my Inspiron laptop keyboard. Recently, all of a sudden the keyboard has been only allowing me to type a e i o and u aswell as 4. this is not the only problem those 6 characters show up in french i.e. the a e i o and u have the apostraphe above, and the 4 is a euro sign.

I initially thought it was viral, or spyware deep scans for both came up clean.
I have checked all regional settings I could find, all UK english.
I have made no changes to the hardware, and no changes to system files or any files required for the laptops operation.
The last piece of software I installed was Google Sketchup.
I have re-installed windows twice,once was a repair, the second was a complete format and install, and I am still experiencing the problem. Dell hasn't really been of any help, they have shipped out a drivers and utils CD for me but other then that nothing has come of their tech support.

Any help would be appreciated....

 

Weird.

Have you tried calling Dell?

 

And sometimes "Y" ?


Sorry, couldn't resist. Hope you get it figured out.