and i remember accidentally hitting the button/key combination/something that made all input into SKK. The fun part is that the obvious key combos (for me; that switches input modes) only changes the SKK to radical input for Kanji. I don't think I did figure out what to do. Eventually I think I called up microsoft onscreen keyboard (one of those accessibility options) and somehow got it to work through there.

at least the access was free/paid for by some Yahoo marketing campaign.