Well, I'm not sure exactly why, but that fix worked!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to help me out. So I guess the problem is that the FTL Assist Me key map was associated with something that had Shift in the key combination?
It was a combination of two things: having a key combination that included a modifier and not having FTL modifiers on. Glad to hear it is working.

If you want to know why that works...
http://isboxer.com/wiki/RIFT:Basic_M...os_Walkthrough describes a manual FTL setup for RIFT which should give you a feel for what is going on.