Spotlight Window: No keyboard shortcut will work...

I can assign any keyboard shortcut for Spotlight's search bar and it'll work, but the inverse is true for Spotlight's window (which I prefer to use).
Any shortcut I assign to the window does not conflict with another.
This problem doesn't, and never existed on my gigabit G4 tower.
Suggestions?
Thanks.
MBP 17" Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Do you have an active selection before Ctrl+Alt+Shift clicking on the layer thumbnail?
(click on the area as below)
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