Well, after taking a couple hrs. to read all of these posts, (quite interesting) I think that, from my personal experience, YOU ARE ALL WRONG ABOUT THE KEYBOARD BEING THE ORIGIN OF THE SMELL.
I have had my G3 800 for just over 3yrs. About 6 months ago, ONLY once in a while, I would notice a faint, passing, but still plainly noticeable smell of Body Odor. Its not a "plastic" smell, and never was. It was clearly a body odor smell. But it really wasn't that bad, and was just once in a while, faintly. My Logic Board died just before my warranty went out. I took it to CompUsa Apple store, and they sent it off, and replaced the Logic Board w/another one. Instantly I noticed the smell; the nausiating, obnoxiously strong B.O. smell that is, as I type, making me sick to my stomach because it is sooooooooo strong. It smells from a distance. It stinks up an entire room, and currently this is my only computer. I bought it w/a student loan, and can't affort another one yet. BESides all of that, why should I end up w/a laptop that I can't bear to use much longer, that NO ONE in their right mind would want to buy, and that I can't trade to anyone for an old PC desktop or something. And, I'm single. I can't use this thing around a woman
That would be social suicide....just think....when's the last time you heard of apple computer and social suicide in the same sentence. I know it's not apple's fault. They are a good company. It was a mistake. I just need help................
Now here's the real kicker. At CompUSa they told me that Apple wouldn't do anything about the disgusting odor, so I didn't bother to call applecare about it. My applecare has since expired, but the Logic Board hasn't been in for that long, though just over the included 90 extra days, and the odor IS GETTING WORSE. It stinks bad enough to make you feel sick, no kidding. So tomorrow, I'm giving them a call, Apple, I mean, and I must say that I am really dad gum upset this time. I really have loved this computer, well, I've loved the OS that this computer runs, MAC OSX. I've tried to convince my friends that my mac isn't inferior to their dell powerhouse laptops that they recently all got, when my hardware was outdated about 6 months after getting my laptop, when apple released the G4 iBook. I've really been on the outs with this thing in a lot of ways, being that in KY, there aren't exactly a lot of mac supporters, and the only place to buy software is 89 miles away. All that I have lived and can happily continue to live with... But I just can't take this SMELL OF NASTY BODY ODOR for much longer. Like that episode of Seinfeld where jerry has the smelly car, "It's alive, it's wrong, it has a mind of it's own, and it can't be stopped or reasoned with. It must die!"
I hope for the sake of my near computing future that I can get some relief from this, as now my anger is fading and a mellow depression is starting to set in. I believe it is the logic board, ya'll.
Sincerely,
( contemplating the pros and cons of buying mac in the future )
iBook 800 mHz - 640 ram Mac OS X (10.2.x) 
