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hey i was working on a project, and when i went to connect to verts, using the hotkey "C" for connect, it didnt work. At first i thought my vert selection was invalid, but i didnt think it was, so i tried using vert|connect using the vert menu, and it worked. I tried connecting two other obviously connectable verts using the hotkey, and again it failed. I went to the help menu and then to defined hotkeys and i found that "C" was not even on it. I dont know how it got taken off, but i would like to put it back on. How do i do this? Also, i found a problem with my "D" hotkey. Its still operating, but intead of duplicating the last comand and leting me specify the magnitude of the cammand, it dulpicated the last command and the magnitude. For example, if i selecte a cube and did the command Move|Y, say one unit, and then i duplicated the command, using "D" it would move the cube up one more unit instead of letting me decide how much to move the cube the second time. It never did this before, but its doing it now. How to i get the "D" hotkey to do what it used to do? Thanks in advance.