Comment 3 for bug 372612

I have the same problem. And I found, how to reproduce this effect with Karmic and an external keyboard. I am not sure, if it's the same bug. But some keyboards might try to hold delay/rate settings, and loose them if sleep-resume takes too long or something. This would explain why *sometimes* they are lost after a resume.

To reproduce reliably:
1 start gnome-keyboard-properties and set a low keyboard delay
2 test it in a gnome-terminal
3 unplug and re-plug your external keyboard
4 test it again in the gnome-terminal
=> internal keyb is unchanged, external keyb delay is reset to default!

What I would expect:
Whenever a keyboard is detected (after resume, plug-in, ...) keyboard delay and rate should be reestablished.