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Ctrl + A (and others)

Dec 29, 2003 Atom link
I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but I thought I'd ask to see if anyone else has noticed it: My strafe left and strafe right keys are 'a' and 'd', respectively, and when I press ctrl and 'a' at the same time I go into a counter-clockwise barrel roll which continues until I press 'q' (the regular Counter-clockwise roll key). Same thing for 'a'. It's kinda useful unless you don't have your multiple button mouse and you make Control your secondary fire button. It happened when I had Mac OS 10.2 and now also with 10.3, in two different computers (One a 800 Mhz G4 iMac, the other an old 500mhz G3 iMac). Is there a way to turn this off, or is it even supposed to happen?
EDIT: Ok, It's only ctrl + a that does it. I thought Ctrl d did the opposite, but it doesn't. It seems that Ctrl a is the only one that does anything different. And sometimes when I push and hold down ctrl a it rotates while I hold it down, and others times it continues rotating after I release it. I think it has to do with how long I hold it down.