Any way to cancel "Are you sure you want to restart" message?

In other versions of OS X, holding down the option key when selecting an option to restart or shut down the computer allowed the user to bypass the annoying "Are you sure…" message. This seems to have stopped working in Lion. Is there any way to bypass these messages? Did the modifier key get changed? There's nothing wrong with the keyboard's option key. The "bypass" works as it should in Snow Leopard.

Weird: after consistently NOT working for months, now that I've talked about it publicly, it has apparently been shamed into working as it should.

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