Navigating the text entry fields in iTunes

[elliottcable]

I've got a really annoying problem. I'm a keyboard fanatic, I spent the vast majority of my time in the Terminal - hell, you might say the only reason I am still running OS X on my Mac instead of Arch Linux is that TextMate and Adium aren't available for a 'real' *NIX.

I'm also really anal when it comes to organization of digital media; my iTunes library is meticulously tagged. However, I can't seem to use the keyboard to operate in iTunes - when entering tags (or for that matter, anywhere else in iTunes), I am unable to use standard key combinations to navigate text. For example, here's how some combinations normally map in most Cocoa apps:

⌃a - Move cursor to the beginning of the paragraph currently containing it
⌃e - Move cursor to the end of the paragraph currently containing it

⌃←, ⌘← - Move cursor to the beginning of the line currently containing it
⌃→, ⌘→ - Move cursor to the end of the line currently containing it

⌥← - Move cursor to the beginning of the word currently containing it, or to the beginning of the previous word if the cursor is already at the beginning of a word
⌥→ - Move cursor to the end of the word currently containing it, or to the end of the previous word if the cursor is already at the end of a word

⇧ + <any of the above combinations> - Preform the action, and select any text between the original cursor position and the new cursor position

Now let's look at how they behave in iTunes:

⌃a - Move cursor to the beginning of the line currently containing it
⌃e - Move cursor to the beginning of the line currently containing it (wtf?)

⌘← - Move cursor to the beginning of the line currently containing it, unless we're at the start of a line, then move it to the beginning of the previous line
⌘→ - Move cursor to the beginning of the line of the line currently containing it, unless we're at the start of a line, then move it to the beginning of the next line (wtf?)

⌃← - Move cursor one character to the left (as if control were not held)
⌃→ - Move cursor one character to the right (as if control were not held)

⌥← - No effect of any sort
⌥→ - No effect of any sort

⇧ + <any of the above combinations, except ⌃a/e> - Preform the action, and select any text between the original cursor position and the new cursor position

Forgive me if I mis-typed some of those, but yeah, in any case, they're wildly out of line with how lines work *anywhere else* in the system.

Does this happen on anybody else's system? Does anybody know a method or hack to 'fix' it? It's becoming nearly impossible to enter/fix imported music's meta tags witout at *least* ⌥←/→ at my fingertips (I use that particular pair *all* the time)...