Since installing 7.2 (or around that time when I also got a new Microsoft keyboard) I had trouble with the single quote. I had to hit the keyboard rather hard to get it on the screen. Thinking it was a bad key I dismantled the keyboard to clean the contact pads but it was still the same. I then bought a new normal (cheap) keyboard and strangely enough I noticed it had the same problem. It worked fine under windows as well. I then changed the keyboard settings from US International to English, restarted X and it now works fine. Very strange, could it have been a bad US driver install, as I've had no problem with the US setting in the past. Nev.