Optionkey always returns "up"

[Thomas McGrath III]

This happens a lot a an office here near me.
After months of trying to figure this out it turns out that they like 
to eat lunch over the keyboard.
I'm not kidding.
I took the keyboard apart and there was a piece of dried fruit under 
the option key.
It also happened to the space key a couple of times.

This may not be the same problem you are seeing but after that I always 
check for food first.

P.S. Even after this they still eat over the keyboard. Some people will 
not learn or change.

True story.

Also, I had an old desktop keyboard that the nine key liked to stick 
from time to time but that would stick in the down position and not in 
the up position. I replaced the key itself and it worked for awhile. 
The only thing I've seen to stick in the up position was the food item.

Tom

On Mar 31, 2004, at 8:32 AM, Jan Decroos wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> It happens from time to time one of our users can't use "the 
> optionKey" as a
> modifier anymore.  It returns (after a while) always "up".  We 
> currently don't
> know what's the reason of this : is it Revolution, is it the Finder, 
> is it
> AppleShare, is it a kernel extension, ... ??
>
> The user has to logout (in the Finder) to have the optionKey available 
> again.
> Quitting the application isn't enough.
>
> Has anyone the same expierence ?
>
> Regards,
> Jan
>
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Thomas J. McGrath III
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Pittsburgh, PA 15234
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