Keyboard confusion

If you're familiar with using the Windows operating system, you won't have much difficulty understanding how to use the Internet cafés common in many areas of the Spanish-speaking world if you wish to send email or surf the Net. But as I have discovered the past few days in Ecuador, mastering the Spanish-layout keyboards is a challenge of a different sort.
 
This may be one of those areas where being skilled touch-typist is a disadvantage. It might be easier being used to hunting and pecking, because that's what I'm doing most of the time anyway. My typical typing speed of 50 words per minute has dropped about a tenth of that.
 
I don't have much advice to offer today, so merely consider yourself forewarned. Travel outside the English-speaking world, and the keyboard may be just different enough to be frustrating. I've seen three different layouts in Ecuador so far, and ironically none of them include the accented vowels (although they do have an Ñ key), which are made through various key combinations. Nearly all the punctuation is in the wrong place for me, and the easiest way I've found to type the @ symbol is to type "64" on the numeric keypad with the Alt key held down (not exactly intuitive, is it?).
 
All I can say is I'm glad I'm spending more time seeing the sights and talking to people than I am trying to use this computer.