Thanks. I think it’s the fact that I allowed the CafeTran macros to run in all apps. Now that I’ve excluded Finder, Safari and Mail things are looking much better. BTW: CafeTran does show up in Witch, but I understand that you don’t want to install Java, which is fine for me.
The solution that I’ve chosen now, to let Keyboard Maestro type the manipulate strings back into CafeTran, has shown its first disadvantage: Typinator macros can be triggered and pause macro execution.
Life’s full of pleasant surprises ;).