Lost Illustrator Shortcut keys

Hi All
Got in this morning and my delete key and the up/down left/right arrow keys not working, for deleting I'm having to use Apple key +X, I've gone throught the preferences, but can't find anything there.
BTW I'm using a Mac G5 running 10.5.8 and using Adobe CS4
Thanks
Darryl

Does a restart help? Perhaps rebooting the computer?
If not: are other keys affected as well: shift, Alt?
If that's the case, you most probably have an application open that interferes with keyboard input. Known to cause the issues are apps like Firefox (some versions) or Entourage as well as a couple of others (Jacob keeps a list somewhere).

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