Several Minor Annoyances

I have been using CS4 for a while (and Illustrator in general for far too long) and have a couple questions.
(1) Why is there no way to select the eyedropper (via modifier key) without clicking on the icon in the tollbox when manipulating type? Is there a third-party plug-in that addresses this shortcoming?
(2) Mostly curiosity here (except as indicated above), but why can't you use modifier keys for tool shortcuts?
(3) Is there a way to assign a key command to a character type style? again, is there a third-party plugin that would allow this?
(4) Is anyone else out there having issues with copy/paste within AI documents? So many times when I copy stuff from one document to another (both AI files) the program crashes. My workaround has been to drag the desired objects from one document to another, or save the document as a new one, then delete what I don't want, which is a bit clumsy.
Any insights are appreciated!
-g-

(1) Why is there no way to select the eyedropper (via modifier key) without clicking on the icon in the tollbox when manipulating type? Is there a third-party plug-in that addresses this shortcoming?
(2) Mostly curiosity here (except as indicated above), but why can't you use modifier keys for tool shortcuts?
(3) Is there a way to assign a key command to a character type style? again, is there a third-party plugin that would allow this?
No, no and no. This stuff is hard-coded and even the smartest plug-in could not circumvent it. Using modifier keys for tool shortcuts doesn't exactly make sense to begin with, though - in pretty much any program. Most apps on this planet prevent it, e.g. it's the standard for defining view navigation hotkeys in CAD and 3D programs. Assigning tools to it would cause major troubles. Your crashes seem to be more of a systemic issue, so please provide some info about your operating system and computer. AI being a 32bit app with effectively only 2GB RAM usage, there are some limits on the amount of data it can handle via copy&paste, so you may also just be pushing too much.
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    -    Buttons! Multiple buttons/text captions on a slide.
    From what I understand you have a whole bunch of buttons on a slide and then when the user clicks on one it shows some text / image? If that is the case then yes it will be a tedious process to build all this. I don't know if it would be easy in any other applications though (surely most of the other Rapid E-learning tools won't even be able to do it). Perhaps it would be better to rethink the way you build the course. Can't you use rollover captions / images instead?
    Another alternative is to build these "interactions" in Flash and then import them into Captivate. Basically you would need to build a couple of different templates where you would be able to reuse the Flash framework and only change images/text in Flash and then importo it into Captivate.
    -    Cannot find a way to edit the default look (object positioning/object sizes) of a quiz. The only attribute that seems changeable is the font size.
    This is a major handicap in Captivate and one of the reasons why we don't use Captivate quizzes in our courses. We build all our course in Captivate (and add Flash and other interactions) but we always use a Flash Quiz. The Captivate quiz is simply too ugly and unstable. We deploy courses to 35.000 people worldwide so stability is our number one priority and sadly Captivate quizzes don't offer that at this point.
    Lock ups and crashes
    -    Double clicking on a .cp file will often result in Captivate freezing at the start up screen.
    I never had that problem. I use Win XP, Vista 64-bit and Win7 64-bit.
    -    Captivate crashes and sometimes predictably, especially where animations are inserted.
    I am using both a Windows 7 64 bit and a Windows Vista 32 bit OS. I have tried the following options with seemingly no difference: RUN AS Admin, XP Compatibility mode
    My regular development PC runs Windows XP Pro. I never have any problems here. On Vista 64-bit I have a ton of problems, but Captivate didn't crash or lock up - it simply didn't perform the actions I wanted it to do. So far on Windows 7 I haven't encountered any crashes or problems. However there is no doubt that Captivate 4 was designed with Win XP in mind and Vista and Win7 are not native platforms for it.
    /Michael
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