Portege R600 -- typing accents in WinXP [solution inside]

I've been struggling with this ever since I bought this laptop 2 years ago, and I just found a solution so I thought I should share it with you in case anyone has experienced alike problems.
I often need to type special signs (,,, and similar for a,i,o,u) in my browser, but I cannot use dead keys on my keyboard. The standard way for this is to type, e.g. "AltGr+0234" to get . However, on the R600, the 4 is also the left arrow on the fn-keypad, which means my browser activates its back buttton. Hence, I cannot type this symbol in my browser.
I cannot use dead keys since I need regular 'e, 'a, etc. 99% of the time (I'm a programmer), and even with dead keys it doesn't always work anyway. Hence, I have been using inefficient workarounds such as opening the charmap and select the symbol there, or such as typing the symbol in notepad and copy/paste it. But that's not a real solution.
I just found the real solution today: http://code.google.com/p/usialtgr/ this moves the dead keys to the alt-gr button, allowing me to program without worries, and allowing me to type special characters fluently with AltGr and without any other problem. This made me so happy that I thought I should share it. :-)
(Should work on all laptop models of course, but for this one it is more crucial, since the keypad "4" activates the left arrow as well. Keywords: AltGr dead keys, windows, keyboard, layout, accents, special characters.)

Thank you very much for this interesting posting.

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> {quote:title=PauPau wrote:}{quote}
> I think such people should read more about notebook and operating system functions and should visit some more pages in order to be up to date?
>
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