Wrong characters appearing - though input is correct?

On my Mac mini running Tiger, my 2 year old hacked his way into the system, and they keyboard is not typing the correct characters.
In the International Settings, the correct Input language is selected - although the problem persists even if I am using alternate country settings).
Opening the Keyboard Viewer show the characters to be mostly math symbols instead of the desired alphabet - if anyone has any suggestions I would be super-grateful!
Thanks in advance,
Jeff

Does it do this in another account? Are any of the keys jammed down so some function is permanently pressed (try with another keyboard).
A favorite thing to happen is for some feature in Universal Access to be activated, though I don't know of one that would favor mathematic symbols.

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