Gibberish config

[Darthstr1fe]

I have had FFXI installed on my laptop b4, however my hard drive got erased and i had to reinstall everything, now for some reason, i have an american copy of the game but the FFXI config and Gamepad configs are in gibberish, nothing but question marks litterally, and the help menus for each are in japanese, im running it on Vista but i downloaded the patch, can someone plz help me out, i wont be able to play till this is fixed.