Spotlight keyboard shortcuts sometimes don't work

I'm not sure when this problem started cropping up--probably after 10.8.1--I'm running 10.8.2 on a 2012 Macbook Pro. Anyway, I'm noticing two bad behaviors with keyboard shortcuts on spotlight.
The first problem is sometimes, the alt-cmd-space short cut sometimes quits working. I'm not sure what causes it to quit, but it does.
The second problem is within the spotlight pulldown menu. Selecting the found item and then hitting cmd-enter is *supposed* to bring up the containing folder for the item in Finder. But sometimes, this no longer works (it goes to Finder, but doesn't go to the containing folder.)
Both of these problems appear to crop up at the same time and both can be fixed by restarting the computer.
When I go into the spotlight preferences, I notice that next to the keyboard shortcuts, there are little "!" indicators. I thought those things mean there is a conflict with the keyboard shortcut, but if I click them and search through the keyboard shortcut settings, I can find no conflicts.
Is anyone else seeing this problem?

It is possible a background app is using the same key combination. Monosnap for example uses cmd+opt+5 but it does not show up in my keyboard shortcuts. You may want to see what else you have running when it does not work and look at the preferences. This mans any apps in the dock and any processes in the menubar. If it allows you, change them accordingly.

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