In need of some help concerning authoring Japanese pages using DW 4 on a USA Windows 2000 machine with the Microsoft IME.

I have followed the technical documents found at:
www.macromedia.com/go/14684
concerning the development of multilingual sites for authoring with Dreamweaver, and have set the "locale" settings of my machine to Japanese; the default encoding within Dreamweaver to Japanese; the Defeault page encoding to Shif-JIS; and I still cannot type one single japanese character in DW in either Code or design view.

All I get is ???????????????????'s for all the japanese I type in.

I can type using the Microsoft IME in Photoshop without changes to my machine settings.
I can type in NoteTab Lite in Japanese withoug changes to my machine settings.

I cannot type in Japanese with or without changes to my machine settings for DW 4.

Has anyone been successful in creating Japanese sites on an American Win2k machine , by typing or cuting and pasting japanese text directly into DW 4?

My work around is typing it out in Word, Save AS HTML , Open up in Netscape Composer 7, SAVE AS ENCODING Shift-JIS, then opening that up in DW to clean up the word mess of html.

Yet if I make one stupid mistake in DW to correct the mess, an extraneous character or space can/does change a character in japanese into something else.