Found a bothersome keybinding issue in the gnome from eabi, seems its been there all along. The "F1" key is bound to the help function and launches it on pressing the "F1".
Heres the fix if others are having this issue, the first fix worked for me. The other is to be tried if the first does not work.
1. Run gconf-edit, you will find it n /apps/gnome-sessions-daemon/keybindings. Try deleting that key and logging out/logging in. You may want to write down what's there in case it does not work. I know this is somewhere in gconf because I have done it before.
2. Follow these steps, YMMV.
sudo mv /usr/bin/yelp /usr/bin/yelp1
sudo echo "echo 1" > /usr/bin/yelp
sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/yelp
