You know it JUST occurred to me...if my keyboard and machine went wonky when I DID hold down shift, control AND alt then there may be something in my windows hot key settings that is THE problem! I may have a glitch between my ANCIENT keyboard (ps2 with adaptors from a huge thingy) and how my win7 reads it! I BET that is it!!  I just have to live with it, as I MUST use the type of keyboard that I do have.

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!