Arrrgh, my favourite subject w/out me! %)
A wind of change blows from the... hmmmm... from the somewhere.
Fashion changes, and SwitchIt stopped to be a good solution.
Ctrl+Shift instead Alt+Shift isn't a good variant too.
May be it is enough to deselect a small checkbox:
Control Panel -> something as Regional Standards (I don't remember how it is written in original Windows and don't know how it can be represented in Hebrew) -> Languages -> "More..." button -> "Language panel" button -> Show indicator on the desktop
It works for me, it works for someone who called Chum, and may be it will work for someone else %)