I found the APK, downloaded it. Froze Samsung keypad. Restored voice recorder. (Never use it)
Phone doesn't hang up, can select w/o error message, keyboard will turn up for a second just before crash. So it is still looking for something. Messaging will now say to select the keyboard.
Long press on type box will finally ask for input, Hackers is selected, keyboard will appear then vanish and error message appears.
It could just be Samsung. dammit. I liked the layout.
I don't think there was an original Android keyboard on the phone. So if it needs something in the background from an Android keyboard, I don't have it. Did not get one with the GB upgrade. The GB keyboard I did download from Market wants the same permissions, but voice recorder wasn't available and GB keyboard ran.