Keyboard shortcuts

I've read topics around keyboard shortcuts that don't work properly and have trashed the pref files http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc1.html. But that did not fix the issue I have.
I have FCE4 set in french. My keyboard layout is swiss-french. What I don't understand is that some shortcuts work fine and other don't. With the browser window active, the shortcut Cmd-N will create a new sequence, but Cmd-B doen't create a new bin. Cmd-B never does anything. Odd when you know that the letter B is located at the same place on a swiss or an english keyboard!
Sometimes Cmd-Q will have the right effect (quit FCE), but sometimes Cmd-Q is the shortcut for 'select all', meaning that A and Q are reversed. But looking at the differences between the swiss and the english keyboard layout, I could not find the logic!!!
Also some weird stuff in the menus: for instance in the edit menu, from time to time the shortcut for 'cancel' is Cmd-Z or could be Cmd-W.
What I'm pretty sure of is that some shortcuts did work well (Cmd-B) until some download of Apple updates a month ago. Unfortunately I couldn't say which one could be the cause of my issue.
Needless to say that my keyboard layout work absolutely fine with all other applications.
Any idea?? Could that be the fact in the Preferences - International, the format is set to France instead of maybe Switzerland???

I just installed Leopard and I ran into this keyboard shortcut problem.
I can confirm that:
a. the +problem exists also with the Italian keyboard+ (in addition to other languages, as pointed by other posters)
b. the +workaround I described in my previous answer works fine+ :
- close FCE (if open)
- open System Preferences/International/Language
- drag English to the first place on top of the other languages
- drag your own language (Italian in my case) again on top of English (at the end the window will show the same original settings, but something happened in the heart of Leopard...)
- close System Preferences
- open FCE: now all shortcuts work as expected, and are correctly listed with their corresponding menu commands
It's a workaround, it's not convenient (I'd better have this bug fixed), but apparently you have to apply it only once for each system startup.
Piero

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fane_j wrote:
Pardon me if I screwed up the quoting.
betaneptune wrote:
I guess you meant that unfortunately these don't have them.
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