That shouldn't be the case, if you installed the patch properly.
In the data\abc folder, the abc.abc file should have this date : 25 November 2005
If you do have the correct file, in the right place, then we need to know what you deb.log file says, approximately 20 lines down. As you are Scottish, we would expect it to have a line "kb : Latin 1"
If you do have the correct kb and the abc file is the correct date, then it should work ok.
Anyway, how did you type the character é? The only way i can type it is with ALT+130 on the numpad.