Why does the $%&#@!# NUMLOCK key dies? :(

Hello cybernetic intelligence:

This is what's happening:
Every so often, and in several Ubuntu machines that I take care of (and some
KDE machines before I ditched KDE), suddenly, and for not apparent reason,
the NUMLOCK key quits working and all I get is control characters regardless
of the state of the key.

The only solution I could find in KDE was to remove the ~/.kde directory,
but as Gnome seems to have more than one configuration directory, my Gnome
solution is to remove anything I can't surely identify (like .ssh, .mozilla,
.wine, etc)
Most times this happens (it would be funny if it wasn't happening to me) I
am in a RUSH, so I just "get it fixed" and live on.

Does anybody know a solution to this issue without resorting to such bloody
butchering?
It's kindda of a pain to rebuild every configuration setting... :(

Hope I can get some help...
Enrique A. Troconis
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