Some Keys not outputting correct chars

I have a HP Pavillion laptop 2000 (I'm on my Dell desk top writing this)
running XP Media Center.

Some of the non char (symbol) keys are printing the wrong symbols.

Examples are:

backslash maps to C with a dot under it
= maps to i
] maps to +
forward slash "/" maps to minus (-)

These keys are all important from a troubleshooting perspective but not so important to the avg user. Have any suggestions? I've already tried changing the language support options, doing a hardware reboot, and checking to see if the mouse keyboard functions are turned on under accessibility options - they're not.

Any good suggestions I would appreciate it muchly.

 

you are probably in the wrong keyboard regional setting.
go to control panel, and keyboard or language settings, change them to US, you probably are in UK settings.

 

I think you have the wrong language keyboard set.

Go to Control Panel and select Regional and Language Options. First check that your country is correct. Then go to the Languages tab and click on Details. Check you have the correct input language and keyboard.

John

 

Yes and sometimes if you've installed a service pack it messes them up a bit - when the technician installed SP2 on the network at school some bit weren't compatible with the network so now when we want @ we have to press ". It can't be fixed by conventional means.