P2 Importing and the Tab Key

I just discovered a MAJOR change in behavior with P2 importing in Final Cut Pro 6.0.2 and it makes me very upset! Previously, when renaming P2 clips in the Log and Transfer window, after double clicking the first clip and renaming, you could press the tab key to go straight to the next clip, type your new name, tab to the next clip... and so on. Now the tab key does not do this!!! I cannot tell you what a huge problem this is. I don't have time to double click every single clip to rename it. Tabing to the next clip saved sooooo much time and was so efficient!
Does anyone know how to get this functionality back? Can I assign a keyboard shortcut? I've already looked and am not finding it.

David S. wrote:
I was able to adapt quickly to this change, and I now like the fact that the tab key for the most apart is designed to move between the text entry fields.
I don't do a lot of P2 importing so wouldn't have noticed this changed, but I would have been surprised if tabbing didn't navigate between text fields. Seems to me this change was for the better.
Now if they'd just use Enter to open sequences selected in the bin and Return to edit the sequence name (instead of the other-way-around it is now). Oh, and Command-D doesn't duplicate a selected sequence? +Option-D?! Wha!?+

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Edited by: Spencer82 on Aug 7, 2010 9:08 AM

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