Keyboard Characters Have Changed!

Somehow -- maybe by the cat walking over the keyboard?? -- a number of the keys are now producing the wrong result.
For example, if I press SHIFT/2 instead of @ I get "
The only way I can get the @ symbol is by going to a character map and inserting it.
Similar things have happened to a number of other keys...such as...
SHIFT 6 &
SHIFT 7 '
SHIFT 8 (
SHIFT 9 )
SHIFT 0 0
and so on...
What can I do to get back to what the keyboard is supposed to do?

Tom Gewecke asked *What do you get pressing the key for [ *
When I press that key I get @...how did you know?
It looks like your layout may have shifted to the JIS (Japanese) type.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Japanese
If so, I think some people are able to get it back to normal by resetting the PMU. I assume you have already verified that only US is selected in system prefs/international/input menu?

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FxEffekt wrote:
Edit: Im using the Swedish layout of the keyboard, if it helps.
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> According to the FM Help and other information sources,
> the ESC c h or the Ctrl+Shift+H keyboard shortcut sequences
> toggle change bars on and off, but in reality this doesn't happen.
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