missing character (Lyx on Mac)

[Max]

Hi everybody,

I've just installed Lyx and even though things went fairly smooth,  
I'm struggling with a bunch of minor issues.
(Using the latest Lyx version, Mac OS 10.4.2, Powerbook with a german  
keyboard. Gerben Wierda's TeX, ghostscript8, Freetype2, libiconf,  
libwmf, ImaheMagick, cm-super packages, ran the Lyx Installer script)

- Lyx won't recognize the ^ key at all (as in x^3 for x cubed).  It  
does recognize    shift ^   though, which correctly yields    °    on  
my german keyboard.

- Whenever I click View -> DVI nothing happens. Am I not supposed to  
get some kind of window displaying the Latex source code???


I'm planning to word process my math assignments (bachelor of  
computer science), so any help is highly appreciated!


Thanks again,

Max