Keyboard button repeat stops working after focus loss in X11

Hi. My setup has a Windows 7 server (with Synergy 1.3.7) and a Debian 6 client (with Synergy 1.3.1 and Quicksynergy 0.9). Whenever the client loses and then regains mouse focus, the keyboard repeat setting (holding down a key makes that key repeat) turns off. I can manually reenable it by talking to X11 (xset r on), but this is sharply curbing the awesomeness of Synergy.

Any suggestions? I'm sure I could hack something together that would make this work automatically for me, but I'd rather it be done the right way. Should I file a bug report? Or could this be a configuration issue?

BTW, I love that you guys are using OSQA, makes me feel right at home. And thanks for making Synergy!

Edit: Doh, I should probably mention that the Debian client is a laptop, so it has a keyboard and touchpad of its own. The autorepeat only fails for the client's built-in keyboard. It's a nicer keyboard, so I like to use it sometimes.