[Joel]

For the record, we changed the Zoom In and Zoom Out shortcuts because Apple had appropriated them for Universal Access zooming in and out, so if that was enabled they'd do "bad things", which is bad.

We had chosen some very nice shortcuts to use instead to avoid this issue, unfortunately *those* shortcuts were being used by Apple's Universal Access as well for the same zooming in and out, except in this case for their new aluminum keyboards (yes, the shortcuts are different depending on what hardware you're using).

Ultimately we wanted to stay away from using Control as a modifier key, but due to the conflicts with Universal Access we're more or less stuck with what we have.

If you do not intend to use the accessibility features in the OS, you can of course change those shortcuts as you'd like in System Preferences/Keyboard & Mouse.