CS6 - keyboard shortcuts problem

in CS6 the basic keyboard shortcuts such as CommandC,A and V are either slow in working, have to be keyed in twice or are not working and have to be selected from the drop down menu. What's up with this?
On a Mac OSX 10.6.8.
Thanks for any help...

It's something specific to your system, but you don't give us nearly enough information to help you.
Maybe you spilled some soda on your keyboard.

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As PieroF suggested in many posts in final cut express forum, there is a workaround:
"+I just installed Leopard and I ran into this keyboard shortcut problem.+
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As stated by Piero, you have to follow this procedure after each computer startup.
I found a way to restore the COMMAND-Q shortcut with the keyboard and mouse system pref panel.
Simply add Final Cut application and add a +custom shotcut+. Be careful to type exactly the "Quit Final Cut Express" menu.
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It's work with Final Cut Express and Final Cut Pro under Leopard 10.5.4.
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Hi Michel,
I like your suggestion because the keyboard shortcuts defined in the system preferences do not require redefinition at each startup. So in theory we could define all missing/wrong shortcuts this way, and not only the cmd-Q as you suggested. Boring, but we could do it once for all.
The only problem is that I don't know how to define shortcuts for submenus, for example "Render Selection/Both": it seems system preferences allows only to define shortcuts for the menu ("Render Selection" - in this case absolutely useless) but not for the submenu.
Do you know a way ? (I looked in the help, which didn't... help).
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Exactly. Bad translations and the lack of application-updates were the main reasons I originally switched to US English versions years and versions ago. Unfortunately I need to use Swedish localized versions at work so I still see the lousy translations.
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