Superscript shortcut broken?

I use a lot of subscripts and superscripts in my field. In iWeb from iLife '06 on my MacBook, the subscript shortcut works (control-apple-minus) but the superscript shortcut does not (control-apple-plus). Does anyone else have this problem? The superscript shortcut simply makes the selected characters' font bigger, as if I'd typed the apple-plus shortcut.
Bryan
MacBook/G4 iMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

You are right! For superscript I have to hit a 4th key, shift. That makes the shortcut shift-control-apple-equals. Ouch!
This is inconsistent with the subscript shortcut which only needs 3 keys pressed. And is not consistent with the bigger-font/smaller-font shortcuts that I use all the time, which are simply apple-minus and apple-equals. I hope Apple can change superscript to be just control-apple-equals.
Is there a way to submit suggestions like that?
Bryan

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