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I've heard of that technique, and it's worth mentioning as you do... but there are problems with it. First, is it implemented universally, or just in some apps? I have a feeling it's the latter. And how are users to know about it at all? In my version of Safari, for example, unless I'm just not seeing it, I don't see those keystrokes anywhere in the menus. Nor in the menus of a handful of other apps I checked right now.

More importantly: Whether it's in the menus or not, it just doesn't work for me! In Safari, for example, the keystoke does nothing. Is that because I have a non-US keyboard? (The ~ mark, for me, requires use of the Shift key.) I don't know.

So, at least some of us Mac users are without any consistent means of switching among an application's windows, other than Exposé. I wish there were a universal keystroke for the task. In this one respect, I think Windows is a wee easier for users (at least newbies) than Mac OS X: its Alt+Tab wiil take you to any open window. (Even if OS X had a universal keystroke like Command+~, that's still a bit more difficult, as the user has to distinguish between one keystoke for switching among apps, and another for switching among an app's windows. It's arguably better for the user in the long run, as users should make a proper distinction between apps and windows, but the Windows way is at least initially easier. IMHO.)