CS2 - Aligning Objects question

OK..I want to align one object to another without the second object moving out of position.
In CS, I swear I clicked on Object 1 (the one I want to align to the second object) and then added Object 2 as a selection......then held down the shift or control key and clicked again on Object 2 to define that object as the one that WON'T move......
then clicked on a vertical alignment button and Object 1 centered itself to object 2.
Anyway, I tried this using various methods in CS2 and in each case - - both objects move when centered together....
What's up with that? Did Adobe change the alignment method yet again?
How can I keep Object 2 "in position?"
Thanks.

Tom,
Nothing has changed about the alignment method, exactly. However, it has
never been necessary to hold down the Shift or Control (or Alt) key when reclicking on the selected object that you want to remain in place. In fact, holding down the Shift key will
deselect any selected object you click on, so holding down the Shift key always disabled the key object feature. Try it in 9 or 10 or CS and you will see.
What did change in CS2 was that holding down the Ctrl/Cmd key while you already have one of the selection tools active temporarily toggles to the other selection tool. And it has always been the case that the Align palette listens only to clicks from the regular black arrow tool, not to clicks from the Direct Select tool. So what I suspect is happening is that you were starting from the regular black arrow tool, and habitually holding down the Ctrl key when you reclicked on the selected key object, even though the modifier was ignored. Now that the Ctrl key toggles to the other selection tool (in your case the Direct Select tool), you no longer have the correct tool selected when you reclick.
If you are working from the regular black arrow tool, all you have to do is stop using
any modifier keys. Which would have worked in earlier versions too.
Since I habitually work with my main tool being the Direct Select tool, and practically never use the black arrow tool, I actually appreciated the toggle in CS2, since it freed me from having to switch to the black arrow tool in order to set a key object. That is, if you do work with your main selection tool being the Direct Select tool (which generally speaking is a more efficient way to work), you can now set up alignments from that tool, by holding down the Ctrl key to temporarily get the black Select tool, whereas in earlier versions you had to change your tool using a and then change it back using v.
http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2006/03/object-alignment-tips.html

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