Text message problem. Help me!!

[SurfDan5]

Everytime I get a text message I scroll over to messages and I click the message to reply. Once I slide out my keyboard to type the screen switches to the landscape menu with email, messages, bookmarks, web search etc... Is there any way to make it stop doing this when I'm trying to reply to a text message? My phone never used to switch to this when replying to a text and now it does. This is really annoying how I have to go into the message twice to reply.