Open new tabs not working (cmd+T)

after the most recent leopard security update (not really sure if that has anything to do with it though) safari has lost it's command+"T" ability to make new blank tabs. in fact not even firefox can do it. i'm very puzzled and no one on this forum or others have mentioned any problems. please help, tabs are a huge part of my browser and it would annoy me to have to reinstall my OS for this. thanks in advance.

Hi again,
Did you restart both applications after resetting things? The keyboard shortcuts only kick in upon a restart of the application.
If you did that, one quick test you can do to help narrow down things is to try Safari in another user account. This will help us to know whether your problem is local to your account or system wide. If you don't have another account you can use System Preferences -> Accounts -> \[+\] to create a test one (and \[-\] to remove it if needed)

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