Input method configuration keeps disappearing

My IM configuration does not always seem to persist a reboot. I show the input menu in the menu bar and my default IM is Canadian English. I also use a few more option, such as Keyboard Viewer, ITABC Pinyin and one custom.
Every now and then, and I don't think that it only happens during a reboot, all my configuration just disappears and default back to Canadian English. Keyboard Viewer and all other selected IMs are gone from the input menu.
In the system.log I'm also seeing:
<hr>
sendQuitEventToApp (Simplified Chinese): AESendMessage returned error -1712
and
ERROR | -\[ApplicationManager quitPrivateProcesses\] | Application "Simplified Chinese" did not respond to quit event
<hr>
So it makes me wonder if it's just the Simplified Chinese IM that's crashing and wiping the rest of the configuration with it.
I never had this problem in Tiger (10.4.7 - 10.4.10)
Anyone else having similar problems?

You should be able to click on "Keyboard Shortcuts..." button, right?
When you do, you'll get to that menu pane. There will be a list of shortcuts with checkboxes.
You might have to check "Input menu" to get its choices active.
The reason you have a yellow alert exclamation point triangle is that you are using the shortcut for previous input source (command-space) for another shortcut. That's why the behavior is happening.
That should fix your shortcut problem. However, I'm stumped about why you can't decheck Kotoeri. What about if you go to International preference pane, choose the "Language" tab and choose "Edit List" to simply remove Japanese? Or do you use it at all?

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