Shift and option key

For some reason, I have never been able on my computer to use
the option drag and the shift key restrain feature on this
computer, it is about a year old. On my older macs all the option
and shift key features work. This is happening in photoshop and
Illustrator also.
This is a I Mac 2 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo
Freehand 10
Illustrator 12.01
Photoshop 9.02

you wouldn't happen to be using Entourage as your email
program would you? If so, look at the post by me "Selection Issues"
this was happening to me yesterday and might be of help. turns out
both the issues you are having and the selection problems were
related to Entourage. Hope this helps.

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