Forum:Problems with the console prevent me from solving bugs

I'm having some issues when trying to fix a bug that occurs with Raul in Fallout: New Vegas.

I'm trying to activate the quest Old School Ghoul by speaking to the characters Loyal, Sterling and Ranger Andy with Raul as my companion. Things have been working as they should when speaking to Loyal and Sterling, but after speaking to Andy, Raul won't initiate the conversation which is necessary to activate his quest.

I have noticed that others have experienced this bug and posted solutions which include using console commands to "reset" Ranger Andy or to add the conversation option in Raul's conversation list ('set "000e61a5" MetRangerAndy to 1' or 'set "000e61a5" MetRangerAndy to 2') but I have encountered an unexpected problem when trying to utilize them. It seems that Fallout is recognizing key-bindings on my keyboard differently then it should, scrambling symbols over the wrong keys and leaving some out completely. As a result, whenever I try typing in an " symbol a @ will appear instead.

So my question is, has anybody experienced something like this and does anyone have a solution I might try to fix it? Is there a way to bring up the " symbol into the console without actually typing it? Or alternatively: Is there another way to activate the quest, or to initiate Raul's conversations, using commands that don't include typing " ?

Thanks to anybody who takes time to post an answer to this unusual problem. I realize the irony in trying to fix a game error which affects an error solving game feature, just to enable it to solve another error. This makes the whole thing even more frustrating. Kjuse 16:26, December 29, 2010 (UTC)