I did indeed wash it out with hot water from my sink, which didn't seem to make much of a difference except clean out the mess of dust and grime that was inside.

Unfortunately, as fas as I can tell, each individual key has a switch that is saudered (sp?) to the circuit board that is on the back with the wiring to the motherboard. I'm not 100% sure yet if the individual keycaps themselves are removable from the switches, which will be part of my "mess around until it works or falls apart" strategy.

I think my first step will likely to be throwing it in the dishwasher as luddite did, without soap of course, and seeing if that fixes it. If that fails, I'll likely try to pry off the keycaps, and from there maybe use some WD-40 or other lubricant to get the keys to be responsive again.

Any ideas beyond that would be helpful =D

-Academician