OS X Shortcuts are overriding my program shortcuts

Question

Hi guys,
I've actually had this problem for the past 1 year now and sadly, I was too lazy to bother posting this up on the forum, but it's starting to irritate me, so i'm just going throw this out there.
Is there any way I can make OSX shortcuts to stop overriding program shortcuts?
For example, by default, shortcut F3 on the desktop (finder) will correspond to "move focus to the dock." Fine.....no problem......but the problem now lies when I have a program open. For example, in Logic Pro 8, the shortut F3 may correspond to "show audio mixer." The problem is that even when I am in the program, pressing F3 doesn't show me the audio mixer. Pressing F3 moves my entire desktop to focus on the dock. Hence, the OS shortcut has overrided the program shortcut, and this is making me feel a little irritated.
I tried finding some sort of a setting inside the "Keyboard & Mouse" menu inside system preferences, but I didn't find anything.
By the way, I'm using a macbook pro right now. I've noticed that I never had this problem when i was on my G5, but for some reason I do on the laptop.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Message was edited by: tekara

Answer 1

In the KB&M Preferences, either check or uncheck the box that says, "Use all F1, F2, etc ...."