yeah that did the trick.
sorry i wasnt reall good at describing the problem, like you said laptops dont have a full keyboard so they use the fn button to allow multi use of the keys, when i pushed certain buttons instead of the letters that are supposed to come up numbers would, i managed to type the first post by holding down the Fn button.
Thanks for the help, i was close to throwing the compuer out and buying a new one..
Cheers