Start menu opens by itself and keyboard turns into hotkeys

Here are my comp specs

Dell Inspiron 1100 Notebook with all the default hardware, nothing added
Windows XP Pro
2.0 GHz celeron processor
512 mb ram
20 gig HD

Here is what my computer has been doing, and its been going on for awhile-

The start menu will open close by itself (this happens when plugged into the net or unpluggged, and its even done this directly after a full reformat). Sometimes it will open and close a few times in a minute, other times it will go non stop for hours.

The other thing that happens is about half of my keyboard will turn into hotkeys, These are the ones I've noticed

(F) Find
(G) Startmenu
(R) Run
(M) Minimize all windows
(D) Show desktop
(L) Logoff
(U) Utlility Manager
(E) I forget what this opened

So you can imagine how annoying this is when i go to type a paper, and this decides to kick in half way through

I've noticed that both of these problems go hand in hand when they show up and I never have one with out the other, so I'm almost positive they are connected. And they dont happen all the time either. Sometimes I can go a week or so, sometimes an hour.

I've tried a dozen of virus and spyware softwares and none have done squat to get rid of it. Here a few Ive used
-Norton
-McAfee
-F-Prot
-Spyware Doctor
-Ad-Aware

What thing I have noticed is that when I have the hotkey issue and I open and the close the taskmanager it will make it stop for a while.

I've searched all over the net for the last few months and talked friends with computers, tech guys, and have found nothing on this, nobody has had this happen to them or heard of it ever happening to anyone else. So am I the one unlucky bastard out there with this bug or what ever the hell it is?

Your help would be greatly apreciated.

 

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