Yeah, knew about alt+numpad and charmap, just thought there might be a handier way - thanks nonetheless 
And more about how important it is to keep your harddrives fanned: I've had a an IBM deskdeathstar survive 4+ years when everybody else's were dropping dead. And when I chose a wrong computer case for a fileserver, causing ambient heat of ~40°C, it took only a few months before a Western-Digital drive dropped dead...
Oh, I got that small amount of money btw, and ordered an additional 73gig raptor... but http://post.dk messed up, and it went on a detour to Copenhagen, so it didn't arrive at Taulov before today, which means it won't hit Aarhus until tonight or tomorrow - meaning I don't get it before monday 
-f0dder
Ah, that sucks. I've had some bad experience with ordering online and the postal service as well when I once purchased a replacement part directly from Creative Labs in the UK. I tracked the shipment and could see that it was at the last stop before arriving where I lived, but suddenly they send it out of the country and to some random city in the Netherlands
If you build a new PC, make sure you get 2 HDs: One fast and one big
By the way, I do use an easier way to enter special chars most of the time.. I just add my most frequently used ones to Direct Access, so that I can just type stuff like
\\o to get, in this case, a °
