Well that was easy. I just had to change the keyboard layout from pc104 to pc102 (the international version), and now I'm typing apostrophes and "quotation marks" properly.
The command "kcmshell4 keyboard_layout" brought up a window to let me easily configure it: select "Enable Keyboard Layouts" and hit the "Apply button". I then switched from the "Generic 104-key pc" option that I apparently selected at start-up to "Generic 102-key (intl) PC". If I read it right then it configures the keyboard for all X sessions, not just when I'm running KDE.
The keyboard_layout module lists the command it's using at the bottom of the window, in a linebox appropriately named "Command". The actual command that I ran, called setxkbmap, is, I believe, the keyboard configuration utility for the X server. I basically used a graphical tool to run the terminal command "setxkbmap -model pc102 -layout us -variant". Crude, but effective. I'm sure the manpage will provide helpful details on what all those options actually do now that I know they exist.
Hmmm...the apostrophe key was previously letting me do stuff like type the letter o with an umlaut. I wonder where that functionality has gone now? I vaguely recall something about a "compose" key to allow input beyond what appears on a standard anglo keyboard. Which key is the compose key now that my apostrophe key is not?
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