How to avoid sending Apple-Tab in Apple Remote Desktop

In Snow Leopard, Apple modified the behavior of Remote Desktop and Screen Sharing to send system level commands to a remote computer by default.  This change has made working with remote computers much more difficult for me. 

At long last “MacNoggin” has posted the solution over on MacOSXHints.

Quit Remote Desktop or Screen Sharing, then open Terminal and paste the following codes to toggle these hidden preferences:

defaults write com.apple.RemoteDesktop DoNotSendSystemKeys -bool YES

defaults write com.apple.ScreenSharing DoNotSendSystemKeys -bool YES

If you would like to reverse, re-enter the code, but change YES to NO at the very end.  And of course, you can always send these “System” commands while in fullscreen mode.