Selecting the Pixels of a Shape. It use to be easy now it's not!

Hey Guys,
I use to use CS3 on a PC. Now I use CS5 on a Mac OSX 10.6.3
I believe the shortcut for selecting the pixels of a shape was CTRL-R. I've tried various ways a Mac might do it like Command + R and Option + R etc and nothing works. All I want to do is select the pixels of a Shape and it doesn't work. The magic wand tool doesn't select shapes, I get an error about "cannot select because the area is a target filled layer". It never use to be like this.
So does anyone know how to select the pixels of a shape? What is the shortcut?
Thanks a lot!

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Mastering Photoshop is not easy, all of us (well, at least me) sometimes click on the wrong spot, or hit the wrong shortcut, especially when we change the OS or the version of Photoshop we work on (or even the keyboard layout, FR Vs EN!).
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