Mac Mail custom keyboard shortcuts won't work

I'm using Mac Mail, trying to set keyboard shortcuts to set flags
- I goto preferences/keyboard/application shortcuts
- click on "+" to add shortcut
- specify Mail shortcut in dropdown menu
- add 6 different shotrcuts OPT/CMD-_ (where _ is: L S V F R P)
- when I added the shortcut, i was very careful to make sure the MENU TITLE of the shortcut in OS-X preferences paine is the same as the
Then, in Mail app, reading a message, I press the shortcut (ex: OPT/CMD-L), and the flag is not set

I'm having this exact same problem with Mail.app on Mavericks, and my workaround is exactly the same. Doesn't it sort of defeat the whole purpose of keyboard shortcuts if I have to grab my mouse to expose the relevant menu?! Very frustrating. Does anyone know how to either 1) find a better workaround on our end or 2) convince Apple to fix the problem?
#2 seems unlikely since custom keyboard shortcuts is probably a pretty rarely used feature...

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