International Keyboard (Input Menu) Oddities

Hi,
Well this has to be unique, I live in Switzerland and have a iMac Intel with a Swiss keyboard, my system language is English and the input menu is set to Swiss German, everything works fine.
Now, my daughters have their system language set to German and naturally their input menu also set to Swiss German. But here the keys are mapped as the German keyboard which is quite different and annoying for them.
A bug?
Regards
Ian
iMac Intel 20" Mac OS X (10.4.5)

There is some sort of bug with the keyboard
switching
unfortunately.
To bad Do you think anyone has filed a bug
report?
Yes. I have. Apple suggested to close it when Tiger came out, but I showed them evidence that the problem still existed.
My favourite remedy is to disable the keyboards
one
by one in System Preferences > International and
then
to enable them again. You don't even have to close
the System Preferences.
Try it. It is done quickly and doesn't hurt.
Does not seem to help in my case, ufortunately... Any
other ideas? Also, do you happen to know where
exactly the International config is stored? I'm
thinking that perhaps I can at least trick it to have
only one input source enabled if I edit "by hand".
I wouldn't recommend editing things by hand, unless you create a special test account to experiment on. However, the easiest way to tell in which file(s) preferences are saved is to open ~/Library/Preferences in a list view and order by date. Make a modification to your preferences, and you will see the newest one pop up to the top (or bottom) of the list almost instantaneously.

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