Spaces shortcut key still works in Lion

While I was still running Snow Leopard, I had set F5 to activate Spaces. Even though F5 doesn't appear to be listed in the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences, it still seems to work. Now that I've upgraded to Lion, strangely the key still seems to work, but I can't get to the Spaces pref pane since it's been replaced by Mission Control. Not a major problem, but ideally I'd like to assing Launchpad to F5, doing so doesn't work while the old Spaces shortcut key holds sway.
I got it to stop working once I set them all of the categories to defaults, but after a reboot it still seems to be set to F5.

com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist also contains these settings:
Control+right and control+left moves from desktop to desktop
Control+1, Control+2, and so forth, go to the specified desktop
Option+Command+D shows and hides the dock
Control-Up shows Mission Control
F12 (or Fn F12) shows the dashboard
If any of those work, it's mystery. Maybe the file is invisible. Not likely. It can't be a bug in Lion, or lots and lots of people would have this problem. It can't be a corrupt installation file, because the problem is too specific. It could be that reinstallation or recovery would fix it. You have an Apple Store in München, so you could ask a Genius there. I think that is the best bet.
This is a system file. If it doesn't exist at log in, Lion creates it. It should not be missing. It occurs to me just now that the Preferences folder might have the wrong permissions and that could prevent Lion from creating the file. Your user account should own the Permissions folder and have read and write privileges. The everyone group should have no access. There should not be any other entries in the name column beyond those two.
Don't apply to enclosed items just yet. The plist files have the same permissions, but the lockfiles have an additional entry granting Wheel read-only access.

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