Yeah, you're on XP. Here's a Microsoft link.
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/h...tlsupp.mspx#E4
About 2/3 of the way down, it talks about the language bar and how to switch languages. You don't even have to log out; you just have to select a different language (on a per-window basis).
The On-Screen Keyboard should be installed by default in the location that I indicated in my previous message.
Yes, the various incarnations of Cyrillic have been tweaked for the different languages. And yes, handwritten Cyrillic is another thing to get used to (I find the "t"s particularly difficult because they look just like "m"s).
Turkish music is indeed very interesting. I've spent a lot of time listening to Bulgarian pop-folk, a lot of which is derived from Turkish music.