I've also experienced this issue on 1 of 2 Precise systems. I noticed
that on the affected system all metacity keybindings suddenly have List
type (list of strings) in the schema - you can see this with gconf-
editor - all key values are surrounded with [ ].  This looks completly
wrong. In particular, switch_windows key binding is [<Alt>Tab]. I
compared this with the other system that doesn't have the problem, and
keybindings are all strings.

I checked my local user schema:

pawel@pawel-VirtualBox:~/.gconf$ grep -R switch_windows *
apps/gconf-editor/%gconf.xml:                   
<stringvalue>/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows</stringvalue>
apps/metacity/global_keybindings/%gconf.xml:    <entry 
name="switch_windows_backward" mtime="1333006464" type="list" ltype="string">
apps/metacity/global_keybindings/%gconf.xml:    <entry name="switch_windows" 
mtime="1333040076" type="list" ltype="string">

So again, the type="list" is incorrect.

I enabled metacity debugging, and it doesn't read such keybindings:
...
KEYBINDINGS: Binding "switch_to_workspace_left" has new gconf value "none"
KEYBINDINGS: Keybinding for "switch_to_workspace_left" is unchanged
KEYBINDINGS: Binding "switch_windows" has new gconf value "none"
KEYBINDINGS: Keybinding for "switch_windows" is unchanged
...

Alex, could you please open gconf-editor and check the value of 
apps/metacity/global_keybindings/switch_windows? 
Then, please also do the grep test like I did above. This will confirm if we're 
facing the same issue.

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