CMD Space and CMD {RIGHT}/{LEFT} have stopped working as config- any ideas?

I have CMD Space set to open Spotlight - set in Preferences/Keyboard&Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts
Used to work but stopped over the last couple of days.
Also, I have set the Spaces to switch on a CMD {Right} or {Left} cursor. this has stopped too.
Have confirmed both are set in preferences.
Have done a reboot.
Keys still not working.
Any suggestions. Failing that I'll just live with it until I put SL on it.
Ta

Here was my solution to this. My left click button on both the trackpad and touch pad suddenly stopped working on me. After putting up with this for a few weeks I decided to investigate. I found if I disabled the touch pad the trackpad left click would start to work again. So I investigated by carefully popping off the left click button for touchpad. Everything looked normal, so I investigated a little father buy removing the small round blueish rubber piece in the middle of the button. Once I did this I realized it quite dirty, with a soft cloth and a toothpick I cleaned both the contacts on the PC and the the black spot on the rubber piece, putting everything back together and my left click worked once again. 
The cause of my problem was just a build up of dirt under the rubber contact which caused the button to short out and disable itself. 
I didn't have to reinstall any software or drivers. 

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