Typographically correct apostrophes and quotation marks? Bug?

I am using the trial of Pages '08 (3.0) on a German Mac OS-X 10.4.10. Typographic quotation marks are switched on.
Apostrophe:
Whenever I type a phrase in English with an apostrophe, for instance the word "Let's" it uses a left single quotation mark (‘) instead of the right single quotation mark.
Quotation marks and languages:
Likewise, with typographic quotation marks set in the program settings, Pages uses the German quotation marks (which look like this: „word‟) although the text language is set to English. This behaviour occurs with English and English, GB. In Word this behaviour changes with the text language setting.
I am a recent switcher, so maybe a solution to this problem is already known. If not, should I report this as a bug via feedback?

Ian, yes, that would be Smart Quotes in English.
You not being able to get German quotation marks in English would seem to be the same problem. I guess this is a bug then (or a missing feature) as I would expect this to change with each language (e.g. French has guillemots etc.).
Would perhaps having several keyboard input setup in OS-X help here?
Thanks for the link to Tom Gewecke's page. Tom, I'd be interested to hear of any other good recommendations. Are NeoOffice/OpenOffice good in this respect? Word compatibility and the ability to track changes is a must for me (as client's work with Office), but I'd rather invest in Microsoft Office when the new Universal version becomes available? I like the more simplified interface of Pages, which is why I'm trying the new version out via the trial.

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