On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 01:15:21PM -0500, Mike Parson wrote:
> Probably not the solution you're looking for, but I ran into this
> (inconsistant interpretation of cursor key input over varying TERMs,
> login methods, etc) years ago and just got into the habbit of using vi's
> movement keys (hjkl) rather than the cursor keys.  They will *always*
> work. =)

That is a terrific advice. I totally second it!!
And by the way, perhaps it is not related but check this out:

http://www.ibiblio.org/web-gentoo/images/vicheat-final.png