SPACE BAR . . . . HELP!!!

Working on a iMac Apple M1 Ventura 13.0 16GB with Premiere Pro Version 25.6.3- today the gremilins have come with vengeance as my space bar in Premiere ONLY has stopped working completely.  My norrmal play-stop-and toggle (space bar short cut) has been rendereed useless even after several attempts to reset, restarting, clearing cache, resetting premiere, etc. I have read and attempted all the previous threads but to no avail.  The space bar is not working in previous versions either as well as other projects that I have attempted to tinker with previous titles to use the space bar.  I have a plethora of external HD hooked up as my content workhorses and have pleny of space left on the actual MAC HDD. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.