[Thinkpad] two strange problems on new Thinkpad

Proud owner of new T43. (fourth Thinkpad I've owned). Its great except for fan noise! (Which I was able to fix with the "fan control" app).

Anyway I have two strange problems that I would love help on! My IT dept is clueless.

1) The scroll button is DOA. I mean the blue button in between the left and right mouse buttons that I can hold to make the trackpoint scroll. I have tried to install new versions of the drivers but without success. Any tips on how to activate this button? Mouse properties in control panel doesn't even mention this button, only left and right.

2) Occasionally the keyboard mappings seem to get out of wack. The Q and A buttons become transposed, and the punctuation buttons get mixed up, but all the other keys work. Strangely this is app specific. It might happen in Word, but if I switch to my browser the keys still work right. Or vice versa. Closing the application and reopening fixes the problem. I have no foreign keymaps installed that I know of. This happens with both internal and external keyboard, so it doesn't appear to be a hardware problem.

I just held shift and typed every key on the top row and got this; compare to your keyboard:

½!"#¤%&/()=?`

WEIRD!

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Ethan

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Received on Tue Feb 14 21:25:43 2006