YAY! Finally got the keyboard working! Here are all the steps I did:
- Task29
- loaded stock ROM
- loaded Energy ROM
- hard reset (once using clear storage and once with buttons)
- soft reset
I did these as I was reading past posts and I believe that the last two steps were the ones that fixed it but the task29 is a good thing to do regardless between ROM flashes to ensure a clean flash.
Thanks to all for your assistance and NRGZ28 for the ROMs! We're still enjoying our phones and resisting to go to the dark side