How to disable shortcut keys not listed in the keyboard shortcuts system

Hi all
As a Graphic Designer I find the shortcut Shift+F12 amazingly irritating when using QuarkXpress, as this is the key command for editing the colours list. For those of you who don't know this shortcut works exactly the same as F12 (Hide/Show dashboard but in slow motion.
You may be supprised that I find this of somewhat limited usefulness.
Can anybody help?
Ta

Hi supertottenham
The Shift key is slo-mo for several functions so I doubt if it can be disabled.
However if Dashboard is not one of your priorities there is an app called TinkerTool which enables alterations to several of the built in apps including Dashboard which it stops appearing completely including Shift+F12
It is a freeware download from http://www.bresink.de/
Hope this is of some use
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