Lost keyboard shortcuts

I recently installed Snow Leopard and have lost the keyboard shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop (CS5).
I tried adding them in System Preferences>Keyboard>Keyboard Shortcuts, but it says I can't add them.
I had them before I updated to Snow Leopard and other computers in our office running the same OS and apps have them.
Any idea how to bring them back??
Thanks! Rick B

Hi DanboZ,
Glad to her that this did the trick.
Sometimes the easiest things to try first are the effective ones.
Thanks for the STAR ***
Dimaxum

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