Illustrator CS3 and Graphic Tablet Problems

Hi
I have an Aiptek Mediatablet 14000U A3 Wide, Professional Edition, and it works flawlessly in all Adobe Products except CS3. I noticed one thing, that the shortcuts, whenever they have the Control key in any combinations, refuse to work. From the keyboard it works, but still I need to use the tablet of course. Is there any solution?

It maybe because Illustrator does not allow control key to be a part of a keyboard short cut.

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