Photoshop tools 'wacky' in 5.5, moving from CS3

I'm used to the tool behavior in CS3 Photoshop but 5.5 has left me dead in the water. I mainly want to know why I can't use the select tool with shift-select to marquee the area that I want to zoom into. Instead, it does some wild zoom in and out when I move the cursor up or down on the screen. How can I just marquee select the area I want to zoom into? Hopefully this can be fixed by setting preferences or something easy.
Also, another headache that has stopped my workflow: I cannot move an item just pasted into an image and on its own layer, by using the move tool. The move tool has become a hand and moves everything including the unselected layer below as well as the item on the layer above that I wanted to move independently of the layer below. Selecting 'transform' does not allow independent moving either, nor does it allow me to transform or change the size of the newly pasted object.
Please help, as I am seriously needing to go back to CS3 to get any work done. I would like to be able to get these things working in CS5.5 but this is the default behavior that I am faced with now that I've upgraded.
TIA,
Ken

Chris Cox wrote:
You might want to read the release notes, and browse the help file for things that are new and changed in CS5.
In the meantime, go to preferences and turn off the scrubby zoom so you get back to the older style zoom you're used to.
The hand tool is not the move tool. You're using the wrong shortcut.
It might seem simple to those who know their way around, but I need help in every way:
Where are the 'release notes' located?
Once I find those I'm sure it will be a help. Thank You for that Chris.
Browsing the help file is something I never do, I go to the help file for specific things mostly, but how would I word this request for using the 'move tool' I call it the move tool but it is the tool at the top of the tool bar if it is stacked vertically as I use it off to the left side of the screen. That is the tool I used to use to move things and work with the edges in the transform box if one of those is active. That part just seems to be missing entirely. I had to finish this project today and had to go back to CS3 and thank goodness I left it active on my system.
Next subject "Scrubby Zoom" i wonder why that isn't left as an option rather than a default now, which kind of throws it at you from left field for the new user. I call myself a new user as this Photoshop has been rearranged into a new program - until I find out how to set the gizmos back to how I like to work with them. I love Photoshop, but am reminded of the old Chinese saying: "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
Next and last of three subjects: I know the hand tool is not the move tool, but when I select the move tool (top at the left vertical choices of tools in the toolbar again) the cursor is the hand tool and does not change by any use of any modifier keys. Are you saying that there is a 'shortcut' that sets this? How is this 'shortcut' accessed? Is it a keyboard command?
If I can conquer and gain control of these two mystifying behaviors over tools that behaved much differently in CS3, I will be the most happy man on earth.
Thank You,
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