Help...Can't Get German ß (Eszett) to display anymore...

I'm American and used to using a QWERTY keyboard, but I like to do some occasional writing in German. On my PC, the added alphabet characters are easy with an alternate keyboard layout selected.
I got an iPod touch recently and with (U.S.) English selected as the language I was happily able to select the extra German letters of ä,ü,ö, and ß by holding after a tap the a,u,o, or s respectively and then sliding to the select the variant I wanted. Everything was perfect...
A couple of days ago, I upgraded to OS 4.2.1 (I had 4.1.something before) and now it seems the "ß" option has vanished (ä,ö,ü are still available as before). The only way to get the ß back is to change to "German" under Settings-General-International-Language. Aghhh.
Can somebody who *hasn't upgraded* confirm that holding a lowercase (it has to be lowercase I think) "s" gives an option to pick "ß" ? And can somebody else who has "upgraded" to 4.2.1 confirm that indeed the β has now disappeared, i.e. holding the lowercase "s" offers nothing additional.
Also, am I correct in assuming that the "Hardware Keyboard Layout" only concerns an external keyboard and not the softkey keyboard that pops up on the iPod Touch itself? I tried tinkering with those settings, but they don't seem to do anything for me (no external keyboard).
Thanks!!!!!

Everyone -
Thanks for the kind responses. Yeah, I know I can hook up an external wireless keyboard, but once I start doing that, it's no longer iPod sized... I might as well have an iPad. My "need" (and it isn't a true need, just an annoying downgrade in functionality) is for doing short notes, posting to German friends' Facebook pages and the like. If I'm doing some serious writing, it's at a laptop.
Tom suggested selecting the German keyboard layout (but keep QWERTY). I actually already tried that (and tried again just now just to re-check), but the problem with that is that unless you keep "globing" back and forth between US& German keyboard layouts, the German keyboard screws up the auto-correct bigtime and amusingly capitalizes all (or almost all) nouns even in English words (sometimes I'm mixing languages). I guess I could turn off auto-correct as well, but it's probably not worth it for a minor gripe. I just wanted to see if I was crazy or if the "ß" did indeed go away for the U.S. keyboard. Looks like it did, which is annoying... not sure what it was hurting having it there....
I guess I'll act like the Swiss and use "ss" as a replacement.
Thanks again, everyone.

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