Selective Color Adjustment Layers

Maybe someone can guide me on how to remedy these questions about Adjustments Layers changes in CS4:
1. Selective Color adjustment. When entering values manually, "undo" will now (in CS4) only undo the last digit (all other versions would undo the whole value just entered). Exp: if I enter +25, and then want to immediately change to +10, pressing Command Z only will undo the "5", not the whole "+25". This has been possible for over a dozen years, so not sure why it won't work now.
2. Old key commands for cycling through each color in Selective Color no longer work in CS4. "Command 1" used to toggle Red, "Command 2" would toggle Yellow, etc. Again, this has always been possible in other versions.

Okay, here's the link I found to the plugin and info on the changes.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/10/shortcut_changes_in_cs4.html
sure change is good, but after 15+ years using the same keys (well most have been the same now since v4.0), having to pause for the first time and take 2 days to learn how to use something you have used everyday without hiccups on previous versiosn - it gets frustrating, and loses valuable time for yourself and clients. How embarrassing to be in front of clients and realize you don't know how to bring up feathering because it both changed in the menu, and the key command no longer works...
thanks again Mark

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You probaly need to record the action in a little different way in photoshop cs4 to get the selective color adjustment layer to work.
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2. Undo the selective color adjustment layer and then double click on on the selective color adjustment layer step in the actions panel
and when the dialog opens set your adjustments and click ok.
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Unless I'm missing something, it appears that no trivial solution exisits. For example, there's no option that allows for selecting the adjustment layers, right clicking them, and choosing 'convert to action.' What I want to avoid is having to redo each adjustment layer just for the sake of recording an action.
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_zeppelin2 wrote:
Hello,
Also, I understand that I can always "place" (i.e. drag and drop) the image requiring processing into the Photoshop document containing the adjustment layers, saving a merged copy as jpeg, and repeat... but such a manual method would border on insulting to this prowess of a program.
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Have you considered using the right mouse button (i.e., right-click) on the image to get a list of layers under the cursor, then selecting by name?
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