🚀 go-pugleaf

My apologies for posting a question that's been seen in both these
groups before, but the messages I've found in searches haven't helped
me solve my problem, so I thought I'd try asking again.

I've installed the English language edition of Windows XP Pro on a
laptop that has a Japanese keyboard (an IBM X30 purchased in Tokyo). I
installed all the relevant drivers available on the IBM website.

The problem is: even if I choose a Japanese keyboard for my input
language(s) in the "Regional and Language Options" control panel, XP
still uses the US layout both in US English and Japanese input
lanaguages (IME direct mode). So when I hit the colon key on the
Japanese keyboard, I get a single quote, and in the Japanese input
language mode the special keys for typing Japanese don't work.

One post said to go to the keyboard control panel and change the
driver to a 106 or 109 key Japanese keyboard. Sounds great, but there
are two issues:

1. I can't figure out how to do that. I don't see any option for
changing the driver. Various attempts to uninstall and reinstall, or
upgrade the driver haven't done anything. I checked on the IBM and
Microsoft websites and couldn't find any such Japanese keyboard
drivers.

2. In the Japanese XP Pro that came preinstalled on the laptop, an
English 101 key keyboard driver is actually the only one installed,
and yet the Japanese keyboard is correctly mapped for both my US
English and Japanese input languages. The only difference between the
two is that when I click "driver details" in the preinstalled Japanese
OS, the keyboard driver shows two additional files that aren't present
in the English install: kbd101.dll and kbdjapan.dll. I have no idea
how to make my English setup the same as the Japanese preinstalled
one.

Any help that anyone could offer on this would be very much
appreciated!

thanks

Dave