Problem with typing in illustrator

When ever I hold down the shift key when I am typing in illustrator nothing comes up. It completely ignores every character I try to put in. Lower case works but upper does not. Has anyone heard of this or knows a fix I could use? I am not sure what I hit to make it do this.
Illy CS2
Thanks,

I have the same issue with a font I want to use.  Works fine in word programs, note pad, simple text, MS Word.  It will show up in Illustrator's font list but when I select it my type disappears!  Yes, it was a free download.  I have tryed a lot of things, re-downloaded same file, I have used three computers with illus, I downloaded the pc version(TTF), tryed that, then I converted it to Mac, I tryed it on an older machine and Illus 6.0, I tryed to resave the font and export outlines in FontMonger, tryed to resave as type1 and type3 - nothing,  Font Dr. says it's ok but FontBook says there are major problems when I activate it.  I don't know what the problem is with this font.  Seems like it has the preview info but no outline data.  If I know how Illus uses fonts differently than other programs I would have a better idea as to how to fix it.  I hope Illus isn't doing something so people will only use Adobe fonts... who knows, no one from Adobe is talking - from google searches, this has been a known issue for a long time.

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