Enter key not working, in various ways

Mac OS 10.6.8
Indesign 7.5.2
With the CS5.5 upgrade I cannot:
1. When in a dialog box, neither RETURN nor ENTER works for 'OK' to accept and close the box.
2. I cannot assign shift-command-return as a Keybaord Command for Forced Line Break. When I try I get the error "conten contains characters which cannot be encoded."

Resetting the preferences doesn't work either. I'll try deleteing the shortcut files now and then resetting. Who knows, I may have to reinstall the ******** package again.
Excuse me while I rant:
I just plunked down over $500 to upgrade from CS 4 to CS5.5. I have owned it for something like a month and am still not using 5.5 because it has been so much of a production drain. Since none of my preferences were inherited from CS4. I have spent several hours in vain googling for ways to to fix without rebuilding by hand. I followed threads that said I could move my keyboard shortcuts, and eventually found in another thread, where they are stored, and then discovered by trial and error that 7.5 is really 6 and 6 is really 4 (if you know what I mean). So, this morning, thinking I was FINALLY in a place where I could use CS5.5 I discover that the return key no longer lets you say "okay" -- that is select the highlighted button in dialogue boxes. Excuse me? Isn't that keyboard action part of the Mac OS since something like the OS 1?
Thank you Peter Spier for so clearly stating the truth: You can't migrate your keyboard shortcuts. Period. I will now enter some text so other users may find this answer with their search tools:
Keyboard shortcuts from CS4 cannot be migrated to CS5
CS4 to CS5 keyboard shortcuts no migration path
CS5.5 CS5 keyboard shortcuts must be built from scratch
Adobe this situation is really lame.

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