'key not working

[Michael Bourbon]

For some reason in Pidgin and ONLY in Pidgin the 'and " keys aren't working.
All it will do is make an accent mark over the following letter if
it's an appropriate
letter for an accent mark.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled Pidgin a few times, even got rid of
all the registry stuff
and the .purple folder and it still won't work.
I really love Pidgin and have to use Trillian for now.
Does anyone know a solution to this problem?