another cyrillic keyboard mystery

[Jules Levin]

Some time ago I appealed for help in restoring Russian to my MSWord 
processor, which had mysteriously disappeared
overnite.  I got several suggestions, which were pessimistic or 
challenging enough for me to procrastinate the problem.
However, recently an opportunity has come up where I really need 
Russian capability, so I again looked into the situation.
And amazingly, I was able to again acquire Russian capability (don't 
ask me what I did...).
But what I got was the Russian Russian keyboard, not the 
Student/phonetic keyboard, which I cherish.
Then I noticed in an overlooked corner of my desktop a folder 
KBDRUPH, and sure enough, it contained KBDRUPH.dll.
I inserted the latter into C:/1386, where by the way I found 
KBDRU1.dll and KBDRU.dll.
I changed names so that the phonetic keyboard was renamed 
KBDRU.dll.  But it didn't help--when I restarted MSWord 2003
(and MSWord 2000--I have both), the keyboard layout remained 
standard, not phonetic.
I then moved the renamed files out of C:/1386 completely, leaving 
only the student keyboard, now named KBDRU.dll.
Again, only the standard keyboard appeared.
Then, just for the heck of it, I removed KBDRU.dll from 1386 
also.  And again, I got the standard RUSSIAN keyboard functioning
normally!!!
So what is going on???
I am truly puzzled by all this.  And I have been using student 
keyboards almost since wordprocessing with cyrillic was possible.
Jules Levin    

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