Premiere CS3 Overlay issue

My machine at work was just upgraded to Premiere CS3 and I've noticed a couple of issues (bugs?) with it. I'll list them separately to keep things nice and neat. I did a search of both the forums and knowledgebase, but was unable to find what I was looking for.
I'm having a rather annoying issue placing clips into my sequence. When I have the Sequence window selected and hit the . key (overlay) to place the clip into the sequence, nothing happens. The edit is never made. The same issue occurs when using the , key (insert). To be able to make the edit, I have to select the Source window, then both overlay and insert work just fine. Anyone else notice this, or is it just my machine?
Again, thanks in advance for any insight into this matter. :)

The insert and overlay keys work from the source monitor. Thats how its supposed to work. Thats why they put the Insert and Overlay Buttons on the source monitor. On the Program Monitor they have Lift and Extract buttons.
None of them work direct from the timeline so thats why the shortcut keys do not work when focussed on the timeline pane.

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    Sorry to hear that you are having such a hard time. Although I did not specifically get the out of memory error, I can only be convinced that that is the problem.
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