Shift key doesn't over-ride caps lock?

Hi all,
It's an entirely silly thing, and not something worth fretting about too much, but I noticed something today on my macbook 2nd gen running 10.4.11 - if I have caps lock on, and I am typing, holding down th shift key (either one) does not override the caps lock and make the letters go to lowercase. This is kind of odd, but I literally can't remember if I've ever done this before. Can anyone tell me if this is a mac specific thing (as on windows, I know I can do this), or is something horked on my machine? I checked my international settings et. all, everything seems to be in order, and yes, both my shift keys work just fine.
Thoughts are appreciated, as this is just kinda odd.
Thanks.
Message was edited by: botkiller

I wonder...I have this vague recollection that it was this way under pre-X Mac OS's. Admittedly, I don't wonder strongly enough to unbox the OS8-running PowerPC 6500/225 in the basement...but maybe there's someone out there with better recollection than me.
Regardless, in Tiger it doesn't work that way.

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