Brush edges disappearing - Not a caps lock issue!

Hello -
I've upgraded to CS4 and Leopard (10.5.6) within the last month or so (computer is a dual G5). Recently (sometime in the last week) I've started having a problem where my brush edges disappear as soon as I start painting: I click to paint, and the cursor gets replaced with a standard black arrow for the duration of the stroke. When I let up on the mouse button, the arrow is still visible, but as soon as I move the mouse, the normal brush borders come back. My preferences are set correctly to display brush size and this has nothing to do with the caps lock (though I did try other preferences to see if it helped).
The actual painting functions normally, it's just impossible to do any precision work when you can't tell where the stroke is going. This is true of the regular paint brush tool as well as the clone stamp, the healing brush, the blur tool, the eraser, and presumably everything else as well. Hard-edged brushes and well as soft ones, round as well as irregular shapes. I never imported any brushes that might be corrupted - I didn't even add to the brush palette from the included supplemental brush libraries.
Trashing preferences didn't help. I reached the point where I uninstalled the whole application and reinstalled from scratch - no difference, even before I changed any preferences or options.
This is driving me nuts. I know I'm not going crazy, because I've got two Macs with CS4 less than 10 feet away from me (one with identical hardware to my own), and the brushes on them show up as perfectly normal. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
--Bonnie

Sorry for the delay in replying - I was out sick all last week and am only now getting caught up.
It turns out that it seems to have been the mouse driver. I have a Macally Ice Mouse I got with the computer - it's optical with a scroll wheel, but simple and not terribly programmable, so way back when I installed the driver and promptly forgot about it. Macally currently offers a driver for system 10.4-10.5, plus an older one for 10.1-10.3. Mine was older still. Upgrading to the 10.5 driver caused the mouse to go haywire, however, and I wasted a lot of time trying to get it to work. As a last resort before replacing the mouse, I tried the 10.1-10.3 driver, and surprisingly it allows the mouse to function properly without recreating the Photoshop issue. So I'll try to keep the obsolete driver in mind next time I have an inexplicable problem, but in the meantime I'm just happy to be functioning again.
Kudos (and thanks!) to Ann for the idea. Jim, does this help you any?
Cheers,
--Bonnie

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