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You could free up C-tab by customizing org-disputed-keys and org-replace-disputed-keys.  Or, maybe even better in your case,  you could overwrite Org's setting of C-tab in a hook, for example

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
       (define-key 'org-mode-map [(control tab)] nil))

Cool. Thanks!


and I use C-c for CUA "copy".

I have no idea how to recover C-c and C-x.  How can you use Emacs if these keys are used for something else?  I guess CUA does this by only using them when the region is active, but this is also not a solution because many commands working on the region are invoked with C-c or C-x.

Incidentally, in my Emacs 23.0.93.1, if I turn on
CUA mode, C-c does not do copy, even though cua-enable-cua-keys is set.

Hmmm... I'm using a very recent snapshot:
GNU Emacs 23.0.91.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4) of 2009-03-20 on hassium, modified by Debian

... and C-c/copy and C-x/cut  work fine. The only CUA settings I have in my .emacs is:

 (cua-enable-cursor-indications t)
 (cua-enable-modeline-indications t)
 (cua-mode t nil (cua-base))

So it should absolutely work for you too.

HTH, and thanks again.
-Tennis