Spurious characters on Tungsten T2

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Hi All,

I've got a Palm Tungsten T2, which I've been using for around 9 months
with no problems whatsoever.

Last week, I was sitting in a meeting idly fiddling with the Palm,
when all of a sudden, text started appearing on the screen at a
frightening rate. I had no keyboard plugged in, and wasn't touching
the screen or the Graffiti area, but a line of quotes - ''''''''' -
suddenly appeared on the MemoPad entry I was viewing - as if someone
was holding down a key on the keyboard. Other spurious key sequences
followed - ggggg, Zzzzzz etc.

I wiped the screen, and tried disabling the keyboard driver, and
resolved to look into it later. I backed everything up, hard reset the
device and cleared the memory and did a clean reinstall of all the
software from the backup - no further problems.

Until this morning, when I was sitting in the same meeting room, idly
fiddling with my Palm, and it started doing the same thing - strings
of random characters appearing on the screen.

I'm baffled. Graffiti still works perfectly, the digitiser is still
calibrated, and the keystrokes are appearing way too fast to be
interpreted Graffiti strokes. Has anyone else seen this happen before?
I have my suspicions about the Palm keyboard driver, but given that
the Palm only does this occasionally, I'm a bit baffled.

Any advice gratefully received.

Simon

PS And no, no-one else in the room was sending me spurious BlueTooth
or IR, as far as I could see!