Verizon is the original carrier of the phone.... But great news. I did get it fixed. Since I didn't have a warranty on the phone, I had nothing to lose. So I disassembled the phone by the recommendations I found at the Blackberry website forum. A big thank you to Doc who recommended the site. 
http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Curve-BlackBerry-8300/Curve-8330-keyboard-not-work... This is the site that I found many suggestions on what could be causing the problem. I completely wiped out my phone, reloaded the programming, still didn't solve the problem. Everything I read kept pointing to the moisture problems the curve 8330 has. Which in turn will cause the copper disks under the membrane to simulate a button hold. This is what I did..... (copied and updated from another user post)
Removed and put the battery back in about 20+ times - no change.
I took the battery out overnight 18 hours or so- no change
Removed the battery then the memory card - no change
I then took out the 5 piece torx driver set and proceeded to dismantle the phone, you will need a #5 and #6 Torx
(There are some videos on youtube to help with the order of operations)
Once disassembled there is a white membrane covering the electronics for the keyboard.
Carefully with rubbing alcohol:
I first took a cuetip and cleaned the whole top of the white membrane (while you are there you might as well). It may or may not help anything.
Then I carefully peeled the white keyboard membrane up (from the bottom) revealing the copper disks (big one on the motherboard for each key and a smaller one attached to the membrane)
My guess is that when these disks make contact (membrane to board) it registers a keystroke.
I did not fully remove the membrane, I just peeled it up to when I could see the trackball disk (top button row).
Using more cuetips carefully cleaned every single copper disk (big and small) I went through about 5 cuetips by the time I was done, they were turning black after a few disks. Be careful not to swipe it all over the white membrane. It has an adhesive that makes it stick back on the board. Two of the discs were pretty funky.
I let the phone air dry for a few minutes and put it back together. FIred it up and it works like new again.
Those two buttons, I guess was simulating a button hold.
Hope this helps some folks as this post did for me after I tried everything else.
Last minute thoughts 
, my phone will still receive text, email, and calls.... None of the buttons work to reply or answer. Thank you for any thoughts that might help resolve this for me.
jimmyjam wrote:Last minute thoughts
Do you have the blackberry backed up on desktop manager?
Thank you Doc, I will keep you posted.
Doc,
I followed all the directions for the swiss army knife, reloaded the OS, got everything to reboot, still cannot get the cursor to click on anything, nor will it light back up after the backlight times out. I appreciate all of your suggestions. I guess my phone has just bit the bitter end. I am giving up on it for tonight before I try to find the nearest woodchipper. Thank you to everyone who has had an idea to try or might think of something else.
Doc,
Thank you for all of your suggestions. I was hoping that anything would fix it other than having to replace it. Can't help some things I guess. It will now become an expensive toy for my kids, LOL. Thanks again to everyone who has tried to help!
