Steam Login issue on Win 7

got a new HP laptop and started installing it. it came with a pre installed Windows 7. current with all the updates. all is working great except after installing Steam on it i'm trying to log in however the steam login window would not accept any keys except digits. I know i'm missing something here and that it's some compatibility issue / me not knowing Win 7 to save my life.
any thoughts?

weird. Maybe just copy/paste your infos in there for the time being. Im on win7 and most of my RL friends are. Never heard of such problems.

login bar accepts pasted data. pswd doesn't (obviously)
sweird