Keyboard Shortcuts Changed?

How annoying is this?
I'm in the midst of a massive tag cleanup exercise (going on 9 days), I upgrade to iTunes 8.2, and all of a sudden, the "Go to the previous or next pane in the Get Info or Preferences window" shortcut no longer works!
According to Apple (I'm guessing they haven't updated it yet) it should work:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/tutorials/shortcuts.html
+Go to the previous or next pane in the Get Info or Preferences window+
+Command-click left bracket ( [ ) or right bracket ( ] )+
Anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions around it?
Thanks,
D

I haven't downloaded the new update yet, so can't try it myself yet. But as an aside, have you done a Repair Permissions on your boot drive and also rebooted the computer after that since you did the update?
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