Keyboard layout broken in some applications

Good evening everyone,
I recently updated to 10.5.4 with the combo update. I used to have a custom keyboard layout (made from a AZERTY layout) with some key combinations I use in my workflow, etc. But ever since this update, some applications just skip it and use the QWERTY layout instead (eventhough the localization of Mac OS X is set to French, my mother tongue).
The incrimined applications that I spotted so far are Fireworks CS3 and World of Warcraft.
If I open International preferences and turn on the menu bar language switcher, US layout isn't even checked and my custom layout do is the default/current one.
Again, I hadn't this behaviour before the update this morning.
Has anyone any clues of what is going on? Should I tell Apple about this problem?
Jérôme Verzier.

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