Need for invalid shortcuts keyboards

I've been using a Microsoft Media Center Edition Infa-red keyboard with windows xp professional edition for about 2 months now. The problem that I am facing began a few days ago and I have tried everything I know how to fix it. The problem is that, with the use of ANY program, pushing some keys by themselves, WITHOUT pushing CTRL, ALT or SHIFT too, will trigger commands within windows. For example: push F will bring up a screen of windows, pushing search L locks computer, R will bring up the guest of execution, E opens windows Explorer... to name a few. I even tried to raise a word processor and see if the problem is gone, and he did not. I can't even type. Im not sure how this problem started since that everything was fine until a few days ago, the only thing I can think is that my 9 month old pounded some keys on the keyboard and activated a sort of typed command. I did a search in Help and the thing the closest I found was a reference to "natural shortcuts keyboard" which listed orders, but nothing on how to turn it off.

Here is a list of the things I tried to solve this problem, that does NOT work:

  • Use a different keyboard.
  • Check drivers for peripherals and ensured they were up-to-date.
  • Disabled ALL facilities Access Options
  • Restarting the computer... as many times
  • Searched for hours through the forums here
  • Did a search extended through the windows, built using
  • Check all windows updates to see if any kind of keyboard tricks has been installed

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help you.

UPDATE

Been tooling autour with windows because on the last 3 hours now and finally 'fixed.' While it would have been nice to find an easier way to solve this problem, the only solution I found was to go to Device Manager and remove all material for Media Center IR keyboard profiles, then unplug the IR receiver, wait a few seconds and then plug the receiver IR back in. XP then detects "new hardware" and automatically install the drivers and the hardware profiles for the Media Center keyboard. Now I hope I can keep my month olds 9 paws on the keyboard.

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