Quick Selection Tool Crashes CS5?

Hello, Recently when I've gone to use the Quick Selection Tool I see no "marching ants" and CS5 crashes a couple of seconds after finishing the brush stroke. I've replaced the graphics card and installed the latest GPU driver. I uninstalled Photoshop and reinstalled it. My system description is below my sig. Has anybody seen this behavior?
Thanks, - Dave
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Hi Noel,
Yeah, I kind of made a long story short. I have a display anomaly as well. Two different display cards, two different driver families. Here's the URL for that thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2974532#2974532
Removing all remnants of drivers usually includes editing the registry. I haven't come across instructions of what to do in that regard. I uninstalled CS3 (my most recent PS version) and uninstalled all plugins except Portraiture by Imagenomic. Portraiture crashes Photoshop a lot when I use it. After installing CS3 I defragged my drives then ran CCleaner and cleaned the registry. After uninstalling CS5 I defragged again and reinstalled it.
There is something badly wrong with my system, but it only shows up when using PS CS5. Is there a diagnostic for driver conflicts?
This is my last system running Windows XP. I plan on retiring it as soon as I can bring my latest build up to snuff. I'm dreading installing Office 2007 on the now PC and having activation problems. I want to make sure Office works on the new PC before decommissioning the one this thread is about. I'm also waiting for Dreamweaver CS5. DW 8 won't run on the new Windows 7 64-bit PC. I ordered it four days ago and can't get a response from Newegg. I should have had it today, but my order is still showing "charged"!
Computers-R-Fun, aren't they?
- Dave

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