Quotation marks and apostophes reversed

When editing text, I'm getting reversed quotation marks and apostophes if they are added to preexisting test. Quotation mark added to the end of a sentence that was already in the document will be pointed the wrong way. Erasing the last letter and retyping it with the quotation mark will perform correctly.
The same happens when placing an apostophe on preexisting text.
This happens in AppleWorks, TextEdit, and Tex-Edit Plus. This does NOT happen in Pages or InDesign. It only happens on one of my computers.
Any ideas?
Ric Carter

Hello
This may be due to a corruption of preferences files dedicated to the named applications.
Try to trash these preferences files.
It may also be due to corruption of some documents but I assumes that if it was specific to only some docs you had wrote this detail.
Some system preferences may be corrupted too but I assumes that if one of them is corrupted, the corruption would strike on every applications on a single computer.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 24 mai 2007 19:04:45)

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