Selection tools not working properly -- Illustrator CS6

The two selection tools in CS6 Illustrotor not working properly. They don't select the object when I click and drag a box around them and the handles on drawing path won't stay highlighted when I use the direct selection tool so I can adjust them -- Worked in Illustrator for about 12 years and never had this problem.

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I have a large photo merge image and wanted to content aware fill the missing bits. When i try to use the select tool it selects while i hold my mouse button down but as soon as i let go it seems to either disappear or jump to somewhere totally different. This only happens in the checkered part with no image, i can select things fine within the image itself.
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(click on the below screenshots for larger views)
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As I am dragging the tool it is selecting as it should but as soon as I stop dragging the area I was trying to select has a bunch of random sections which are no longer selected. When I then try to add to the selection, it simply changes which sections are selected and not selected. I cannot get it to just select as I want it to.
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emain,
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