I was using terminal emulator to try and remove some battery hogs and the soft keyboard disappeared. It doesn't work for anything now not even after a reset.
How do I enter the Clockworkmod to do a restore without a keyboard?
I did a factory reset from the update.zip file and got the soft keyboard back. I then re-rooted and loaded Adobe Acrobat X so I can view pdf's without having to create epub's for Aldiko.
I think that I'll leave the Google Market off for now as I don't need the battery hogs it installs. Plus there are things that you can't use like Google Googles and with the tablet rooted I seem to be able to install anything I need.