Premiere CS4 keyboard shortcuts

Hi,
I decided to have another go at getting CS4 Production Premium to work. (To cut a long story short, I was on CS3, everything worked fine, upgraded to CS4 and I couldn't get Premiere to output or render anything, went back to CS3!!).
I've now loaded Windows 7 professional 64bit. (applied all updates)
Loaded all of CS4 production premium and applied all the updates I could find (750Mb worth!!)
So now I try Premiere (V4.2) and I have no shortcut keys!!
Ctrl S does not save, Ctrl V does not paste etc. etc. Absolutely no shortcut keys whatsoever.
Anyone any ideas? Is my installation flawed? I'm I missing something obvious?
Never come across a programme with no shortcut keys before. This surely is not correct.
Thanks in advance

OK, for what its worth I have solved this issue myself!
I reinstalled Premiere and added all available updates and the shortcut keys have now returned. I can only assume there was some glitch with my first install. Anyway as I purchased my CS4 upgrade last March, its only taken 8 months to get CS4 to operate as it should have done!! This is not good in my opinion and I will be VERY warry of any future updates by Adobe.
I will be keeping a careful eye on this forum in future.
I would say I highly recommed upgrading to Windows 7 professional (64 bit), especially if you are on Vista (as I was). I'm so far very impressed with this OS (even before a service pack has been released).
For now I am a happy chap!!

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