Lion dialog boxes don't have outlined button selectable by space bar

After installing Lion, the dialog boxes (e.g. when sending mail or saving file) show one box highlighted in blue as expected, but I cannot tab or move to the other buttons, and no button has the outline indicating it is selectable with a space bar (and, indeed, the space bar has no effect).
This is only happening on one of the computers I upgraded to Lion; the others are working fine. Any ideas?

As Gilda would have said, "Never mind..."
Notwithstanding 30 minutes of fruitless forum searching, once I posted the problem, a suggestion in the "More Like This" box to the right led me right to the following:
There's a setting in System Preferences (under Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts tab) for Full Keyboard Access. If you select "All Controls" it will let you tab between buttons and any other controls (checkboxes, radio buttons, etc.) in the window. You can also press Ctrl-F7 as it says on the bottom there. Maybe you hit this key combo by accident??
Bingo

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