Conflicting OSX and FCP hotkeys

i've been trying to use the shift-F7 and shift-F8 to clear audio destinations on tracks one and two, but i always get the OSX floating windows instead. i've unchecked all the boxes in the Keyboard and Mouse section of the System Preferences, but still i get floating windows.
oddly, i had done just this to insert using command-F9, overwrite using command-F10, etc. and that worked fine. but destination audio tracks don't seem to be working, though the buttons clearly work.
any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
G5   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   FCP5

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