USB Keyboard Keys now seem to be mapped to characters/ instead of alphabets

Hi
I my USB keyboard, which has been working until about a few days ago, now seems to output non-alphabet characters such as " ' ", alpha, beta, etc. However the weird thing is that the numeric keypad works fine.
I am not sure, but I have the feeling that it could be due to the fact that I just downloaded and installed a recent Microsoft Office 2008 update.
Any help/advice would be much appreciated!!
Thx
Beng

Hi
What did you mean by "is it reading the correct method"?
WHen I switch to the international preference pain, the choice still appears to be english, and my laptop keyboard works fine, though NOT the USB keyboard. Its as if it has been mapped to the character pallette and outputs math, roman characters....
Also under Input menu there is no option to set or change any roman characters, etc, just languages.
THanks
Beng

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