Keyboard shortcuts disabled across all apps

My Command-3 and Command-4 shortcuts do not work in any application. i.e. Finder, Calendar, I upgraded to Mountain Lion last week.

So my question is how to fix it? Or what is causing it? so I can fix it.

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Thanks for ur reply Schneider.
How do i retain the shortcuts? they are visible when i initially assign but once i quit and relaunch the application, they do not appear...
I changed only the default setting in the ActionDef in your .fr file from "kSDKDefInvisibleInKBSCEditorFlag" to "kSDKDefVisibleInKBSCEditorFlag" (change 'Invisible' to 'Visible') Do i have to mae any other change?
Is it possible to retain the shortcuts i ve created for my own menus?
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