Hi,
Maybe it's just me, but Maya 4.0 + kept resetting my mouse pointer to the default X pointer (urgh). Maya 5 has now decided to start turning keyboard repeat off. In order to "fix" this I've written a script to wrap Maya and sort it out;
http://www.fenriz.org/projects/maya/http://www.fenriz.org/projects/maya/
I hope someone finds that useful,
-- Rory Hunter