Mathematica and numlock

For some reason, I have been digging around forever trying to figure out why the backspace key didn't work in Mathematica when I would remotely log on to it. Finally I found out that it doesn't work when you start the Xserver with the numlock key enabled and does work when you start the server with it disabled! That is crazy. If anybody reads this, hopefully this will solve your problem with the backspace key not working. I am using cygwin and ssh to connect to a linux server running mathematica 5.2.