(Arial) Fonts turn into cyrillic with anti-aliasing 'none' (bug?)

Hi, I've got this really strange problem here.
When I'm typing 'ç' in a Photoshop I get a cyrillic 'H'. When I turn the anti-aliasing of the font into 'sharp' instead of 'none' for instance, it's back the ç again. This occurs with every key in the numeric row.
I'm using an azerty keyboard and the ç is located on the 9-key,  This only happens with the default font 'Arial' (regular). I'm working with Photoshop CS3 (Master Collection) on a Mac OSX 1.5.6 (Leopard).

You're welcome.   
Undisclosed recipient wrote:
Thrashing the preferences did the trick. I should make a habbit of this when things fall apart.
Absolutely! It's the first thing I try when anything starts acting weird "suddenly".
Undisclosed recipient wrote:
I figured it was a russian H because the other letters on the numeric row were russian too (inverted R's and so on).
Interesting.
Incidentally, the я is not an inverted or flipped R but a uniquely Cyrillic letter which represents the diphthong YA, and its name in Russian is indeed "Ya".

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