Weird Virtual Keyboard Issue

[Nolacenturion]

I was in the process of using the standard full QWERTY keyboard, switched to numerics to enter a phone number into a new contact and realized that the little box with A/B, that you hit to switch back to alpha, was grayed out and blank. I cant switch out of the numeric mode. switching to the "phone" style or Compact doesn't work either...still stuck on the full qwerty numeric mode. Fortunately, I also have SWYPE, which works fine, as does the hard keyboard. I can get by between the two, but I'd like to have the stock virtual keyboards back. I know I can do a hard reset but I just did one and it took me an hour to load all the cabs and get it back to where I wanted it.
Any ideas??????????