How to change a single shortcut that keeps messing me up?

In another program that I use frequently, typing an "8" switches me to another tool. In Photoshop, by default, it executes a "Master Opacity Change". Whenever I'm in Photoshop, I keep accidentally hitting the 8--my brain is on autopilot from the other program.  And sometimes it's subtle enough that I don't realize I've done so until it is too late to undo--and I'm way down in the History palette. I have to close without saving and lose a lot of editing!
QUESTION:  I would like to remove/disable this shortcut in Photoshop (since it would be difficult/awkward to change it in the other program). But I can't FIND the darn thing, despite scrolling through all the shortcuts several times. I searched help for Master Opacity Change and found out it is a layer style, but where's the dang shortcut?
I'm undoubtedly missing something really simple (like my brain)...
Thanks.

Actually, you might have something there...!   Maybe if I tape a little piece of plastic or something onto the 8 key when I'm in Photoshop, it will, hopefully, at least make me cognizant of the fact that I hit that key when I shouldn't have.  Then I won't end up realizing, 20 steps later, that I changed the opacity of the layer.
Thx!  Seriously!
Wendy Sieja
Presto Products Company
Art Department
920-738-1721
-- "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present." -- Abraham Lincoln

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