Photoshop CS mouse+keyboard shortcuts

Hello,
I use this cs5 release after years passed with photoshop 7, which is the best for me.
I try to find an option to change shortcuts but without success.
When I use brush, ctrl+alt+right click change the brush size and ctrl+alt+shift+right click change brush color.
For my productivity I need ctrl+alt+right click change the layer and ctrl+alt+shift+right click link layer.
I can't switch every time between V and B...
Where can I change this or what the shortcuts for these actions when you are in brush mode????
In fact, I buy production suite for 1900€, and to use this, I have to change my system to seven x64 because of afterEffect......I have to change my ud1212 ultrapad because no 64bits driver exist, and photoshop is unusable??????????
It's probably the last time I buy adobe products.
Please help me for that, because I have to return on photoshop 7 if I can't do that....
Thanks.

Believe me, I feel your pain, but most of us have come to realize that the ways of using software do change over time.
In your case a jump from Photoshop 7.0 to CS5 is 5 major versions.  With 5 major version releases of virtually any other product you'd find that there is no resemblance and you'd have to start all over in learning how to use it.  Adobe has actually done a decent job of trying to keep the UI consistent, and it also says the UI was pretty good to start with.
Personally I've purchased every upgrade of Photoshop over time.  The shock is less that way.
I don't know what to tell you besides encouraging you to try to get used to the new ways of doing things.  I doubt Adobe would consider removing the new brush gestures.
I'm a fairly old dog myself and I find that living with something new for a few weeks, forcing myself to try new things, and sometimes configuring "legacy" operations when possible, helps.  Of course then I find great frustration in going back and trying to use the old stuff, which doesn't offer the "new" ways!
Best of luck to you.
-Noel

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