[orca-list] Orca on my Fedora 17: big-time key problem

[Al Sten-Clanton <albert e sten_clanton verizon net>]

Greetings!

I've been using my new Linux machine with some decent luck since Sunday. 
 It's running Fedora 17, as the subject line says, and Orca 3.4 
something.  I presume the version of Gnome is essentially the same.

This morning, somehow, the keystrokes screwed up.  When I hit the 
spacebar, for example, I get Orca preferences; even then, I must hit 
escape to actually get to the various preferences.  When I hit the 
letter t by itself, I often get the time, and this should require using 
the Orca key.  The pass-through should require the Orca key plus the 
backspace, but pressing the backspace alone does this today.  In order 
to type a command, I had to precede each of its keystrokes with the 
backspace.  All of this has made using that machine mighty difficult.

I seem to have been using Firefox when this occurred.  I do not know how 
it happen, though.  I checked the list of key bindings for Orca, and all 
seemed as it should.

Any help would be very greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

Al