This might sound really patronising, but there's no chance that your keyboard is playing up is there?
So when you type "ubuntu" you get "uuntu" or similar? Happened to me some time ago with a website, and I was convinced I'd been locked out... in reality, it was a duff "9" key which needed to be hit VERY hard to make it work :-) Sean
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