[CentOS] whacked keyboard behavior CLI

Hi there --- for some reason I am getting really weird keyboard behavior 
on the CLI (no xfs or anything running). Centos 4.4 yummed up.

For example if i type "root" to login, I get "rot" or sometimes 
"roooooot". Then other times I will have to press a key like 3 times to 
get a double character.

Now at first I thought maybe it was the keyboard, but it seems to work 
fine when within gnome.

In all honesty I think i just have to get a different keyboard, but 
wanted to see if anyone had any experience with something like this 
(before I returned it) and a way to fix for the CLI. I have tried the 
kbdrate command.

The keyboard is a wireless belkin with a usb connection.


Thanks in advance.

d