Keyboard Layout resets itself

Hi,

I am a German living in Switzerland and when I bought my Mac it was
supplied with a Swiss-German keyboard - which I quickly replaced with a
true German keyboard (from Microsoft - Keyboard and Mice are the only
Microsoft products I ever purchased).

However - Mac OS X does not what to know anything about it. Sure I can
add the new Keyboard using the Internationalisation but - for a few
weeks now - whenever I reboot the system is back to Swiss-German. Before
that such behaviour was observed every 10th boot or so.

Also I can't deselect the Swiss-German entry in the Keyboard list. It
there any way to make the system forget that I ever owned a Swiss-German
keyboard?

I already set up an Automator Script to set the Keyboard as I like it -
but this is far from perfect.

I had a look at AppleScript - but is seems that "Internationalisation"
is not part of the "System Events" application. So this was a dead end.

I checked "/Library/Preferences" but "com.apple.keyboardtype.plist" is a
binary file - so I can't edit it.

I checked "~/Library/Preferences" but I saw no files with promising names.

Last not least: All the nice extras extras of the Microsoft keyboard
won't work as well. They worked for a while but then all went havoc.

This Keyboard issue has not become the main annoying problem with Mac OS
X and I an hoping for any help.

Martin

PS: I am a software developer - Terminal, AppleScript, Shell-Script
editing plist files with a text editor it all fine by me. I'll even
patch a binary file with a hex-editor if needed.
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Martin Krischik
krischik.DeleteThis@me.com

In article <dot1r5-3j5.ln1.TakeThisOut@macpro-wlan.krischik.com>,
Martin Krischik <krischik.TakeThisOut@me.com> wrote:

> I checked "/Library/Preferences" but "com.apple.keyboardtype.plist" is a
> binary file - so I can't edit it.
>

If you double-click, it should open in the plist editor. I don't have
that file in my prefs.
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W. Oates