Screen Shot Problem (No Longer Working)

For some reason, I suddenly cannot take a screen shot! I'm using Snow Leopard on a MacBook Pro, and I keep trying to take a screen capture shot of a website for a friend, but when I hit optionshift3 in both Firefox and Safari, nothing happens! I even restarted and the problem is persisting. Is there some way to fix this? I just can't figure out what I could have done to make this function not work any longer.

Command + Shift + 3 for entire screen
Command + Shift + 4 for selected area
Go to Finder > Help menu. Type in "shortcuts for taking picture of screen" for more information.
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