How do I force straight quotation marks to turn to smart quotes?

Our ID prefs are set to use smart quotes but there are times when we get text documents that refuse to toe the line. We fix that by doing Find/Change and forcing all straight quotes to change to smart quotes. Is there a way to tell InDesign to change all those by itself whenever any straight quotes is placed on a page? Note that we are mostly editors who have to do layout by ourselves. We also have guys who only do layout but they don't really understand InDesign, so we want to make things a lot easier for them. We are all using InDesign CS5.
Thank you.

Yes, it's checked in all our machines (all iMacs, btw). Any other solution? Any suggestion about how to make a shortcut so that when I press just one key combination, all the straight (stupid) quotes would become smart quotes?
I did read Sandy's Quick Start Guide when we were still using ID2. I also bought the book by David Blattner and Steve Werner for ID3. But I stopped using ID regularly after a career change. Now I'm again helping the guys I left earlier.

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red_menace:
That's my problem: no matter how I set the preferences in the applications, the smart quotes won't go away.
There is clearly an issue with smart quotes in your configuration. The global smart quotes setting is not being honored, nor is any local setting that might exist.
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Did the tools you are using also get restarted after the global settings were changed?
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(3 days later: 55 people have looked at this discussion, but no one has responded. I'm still hoping I can delete the quotation marks around my slideshow captions. Any ideas out there somewhere?)
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