Application Keyboard Shortcuts

Hi, this section of the Keyboard prefpane isn't saving the values for me across sessions. From other articles, it looks like it should
What I mean is that the plist files get updated with the new NSUserKeyEquivalent values and the new shortcuts work, but the next time I go into the prefpane, it doesn't show the items I've added. This way, I can't modify added items. I gotta add again, which I'm guessing would screw up my old entries
Should this be happening? Thx!

Very same situation here! I want to change ormat > Quote Level > Increase / Decrease shortcuts but when I did that on System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts it affect just Format > Indentation > Increase.
I google for it for about an hour and didn't find nothing except third party (and paid) apps. If someone out there know hot to setup nested and duplicated entries using Leopard's own Keyboard Shortcus, please let us know! I will be glad to pay you a couple of beers for that!
Best,

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