Illustrator CS3 confuses Ctrl-Z and Ctrl-Y keys

Ctrl-Z should step back in history and Ctrl-Y should change the view.
On my PC both key functions are exchanged in IL CS3.
I work with a german Windows XP and a german keyboard (which is known to confuse non-germans since Y and Z are exchanged on german keyboards).
The Ctrl-Z function works well in Indesign CS3 on the same PC.
Regards
Gerhard

Kurt,
you are right, its Windows that does it. I disabled that function at the OS level, thank you for that information.
But I still think Illustrator could do a bit better in this case, since many users use windows "as is".
Alt+Shift is a standard illustrator key combination and one of the recommended ways to duplicate objects that is described in the documentation. It might possibly be changed by the user. But any new or casual user in Germany might have the same problem.
Maybe a footnote in the documentation whereever this keycode is recommended could prevent users to be fooled by windows.
Regards
Gerhard

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