Switch Between Confusing Japanese Keyboard Layouts: Romaji Input and Kana Input! (Simple answer at the bottom)

I am soooo excited about something I just figured out.

Something about Japanese IME has confused me forever. I think it's mostly because of those befuddling explanations, "Here's how you switch between hiragana, katakana, half-width that and half-width this--"

"And you can do it two different ways-- by editing the settings, clicking with the mouse, although using the symmetrical copies of the same keys may not work; also please do "

"And it will be totally backwards if you're running vista, or if you're running XP it could be slightly closer to this model--"

By the way, we hope you're VERY confused by now! If only we could make you, poor little english-japanese-typing-newbie, give up... but with the invention of Copy and Paste, we may not prevail in this effort.... pooohy..."

The settings menus are also very detailed and befuddleoozing.

SO! My keyboard gets confusing every once in a while. I'm just typing along happily in Japanese, entering text into Jisho, Google translate, searching lyrics, or peering at anime and manga on amazon.jp.... and SURPRISE!

The symbols come out wrong. The letters are not what they seem to be. I press は　and get　くち. WHAT IS THIS!?

The keyboard is whacked. My fingers are insane. My brain-muscle coordination has exploded in its capacity for functionalism.

At first I thought something crazy was going on, and I couldn't explain it. I'm very slow that way. …^o.o^…  Then I realized my keyboard layout was different. It was like I was typing on some Japanese keyboard. And I was!

Duh. You can switch between "Kana Imput" and "Romaji Imput". Some keyboards, like the ones Japanese might use, have a layout with little kana on each key. So you don't have to press two keys to get a kana, you can press ONE key.

Romaji imput is obviously going to be easier for us English speakers, since we don't have to learn how to type all over again. I've also heard it said that neither method is especially more efficient than the other.

Here's the shortcut for switching your keyboard layout!-> (make sure to press these keys while in the Japanese IME, which should be activated most simply by pressing alt+shift)

ctrl+shift+capslock

....that's it....

Please note I use Vista! That could make a difference... -.-'   ? ? ?