How to solve partially inactive keyboard shortcuts

Hello,
I'm running Illustrator cs5 in Windows 7 64bit. My issue is that I will do something such as select some items, and then I will attempt to use a keyboard shortcut, such as group, copy or paste (or wireframe, which I use a lot) and it wont trigger. It seems like I have to click the an artboard for it to remember that it is able to use shortcuts. This is annoying. Is there something that I can do about it?
Thanks.

Glad to help out Ernie.  On to the second question about the updater; I realized that if you only have FHMX 11.0 installed you can't jump to 11.02 without first having updated to 11.01. But to get that, you have to go through Customer Service (which is a total pain.) The easy solution is to download the FHMX trial version which is FH 11.0.2. This will bypass the 11.01 updater. Read this thread and Judy's answer: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1035987?tstart=0)
more: http://www.adobe.com/support/freehand/updaters.html

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