Mountain Lion's Mail doesn't recognize keyboard shortcuts for formatting characters.

Usually in Mail you can press Command-I, and the characters you type are italicized. The same with Command-B (bold), Command-U (Underline), etc. After installing Mountain Lion, these keyboard shortcuts are no longer recognized in Mail. The only way to format characters is to select text, control-click the highlighted text, and from the contextual menu select Font, which lets one choose Bold, Italic, or Underline.
How can I make Mail work with the supposedly built-in keyboard shortcuts?
(I experienced this problem with Snow Leopard, but my installation of Lion corrected the issue. Now Mountain Lion brings it back agian. Sheesh.)

(x-post) Ended up on a call with apple support. THey had me disable login items and go through system folder and dump a lot of extensions.  Kill all /library/launchagents and /library/launchdaemons  all of them.
He said the likely culprits are /library/extensions... instanton and soundflower. I killed those.
so my system has been given an enema, and the problem has gone away.

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