KDE Upgrade + accents

Hi, I run SuSE 9.1 Pro. In /etc/sysconfig/keyboard, KEYTABLE is "es.map.gz". After upgrading to KDE 3.3.0 via apt dist-upgrade, I can no longer type accented vowels in Lyx nor in KWord, & get this (´i ) instead of that ( í ). However, accents work as usual in OOffice, Abiword and Kontact. Other people seem to be having the same problem. Does anyone know what could be done? I do not have a US keyboard with deadkeys. Thanks in advance. Pablo