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When I boot into Fedora 13 I have to hit shift Numlk (turn numlock off) to free up the keys on the numeric keypad to register the alpha letters. This does not survive a boot and I have to repeat it every time. How do I fix this behavior? When I boot into XP everything works.

Edit: Seems like an ongoing bug in Ubuntu. Perhaps it has carried over to Fedora.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/92482

Fixed by;

In terminal as su;
yum install gconf-editor
Then open gconf-editor, and search for "numlock".
Turn off "remember_numlock_state".
Turn off numlock "numlock_on".