Snowleopard mail keyboard shortcuts

Since I upgraded to SnowLeopard 10.6.8, when composing a message in Mail, the keyboard shortcuts "Command-I" for "Italics" and "Command-B" for "Bold" no longer work. I can get what I want by highlighting a selection, opening the font list, and double-clicking on the font choice. But this is inconvenient at best. Changing "Message Format" to "Rich Text" in Preferences does not solve the problem. Any ideas or fixes?
Thanks.

I'll make an educated hypothesis: perhaps upgrading to 10.6.8 didn't quite 'take' and corrupted your Mail preferences. If that's the case, you could test two possible solutions:
1. Quit Mail and go to ~/Library/Preferences and drag the com.apple.mail.plist file to your Desktop (unless you know all your Mail settings, write them all down first, since you will have to reset them). Then, restart Mail, enter your preferences again and test it several times by composing and sending several messages, Quitting and Restarting between each one. If the problem goes away, then the preferences file was the culprit. If not, then it's something else, so you can try:
2. Download the 10.6.8 Update again, then use Disk Utility to Repair Permissions. Quit all applications, then run the 10.6.8 Update again. Restart your Mac when it's done, Repair Permissions again, then launch Mail and test it to see if the problem goes away.
Post back with your results.

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