Malfunction: phone keypad

[discipler]

Please help. When I enter numbers on the keypad, it thinks I am entering a numerical search string - but not from the total list of contacts - and only recognizes numbers from the list of recent calls. So after three or four numbers being entered, I get the message "no matches:..." I thought the problem might be the black htc dialer, so I removed that. Still same problem. I have had Yay 4 Juggs Rom on the phone for a some time now and it has not been a problem.