"Command + Mouse Click" Keystroke on Layers using CS4

I always use the "Command + Mouse Click" keystroke to create a "selection" and isolate an object on any particular Layer. It's always worked on previous versions of Photoshop.
However, for some reason this keystroke no longer works in CS4. It does work fine in Channels though but not in Layers.
Is anyone else having this issue?

OMG, you are the king! I'm sooo used to version 5.5 to CS1 where I can use the same keystroke outside the image icon boundaries. Thanks!

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As originally stated in my opening post, the SWF is to be inserted into an Articulate '13 slide (what I called an aggregator originally - I tried not to bring them up since I don't want the chatter about "There's your problem - using Articulate"! ).
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Why must anything be posted to a web server for this functionality to work?
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