Brush lock / freeze - Photoshop CS5

Did some searching on these forums and google but couldn't find a solution.
When painting in Photoshop CS5  ( mac ) the brush tool will often "lock" and turn to the spinning dial icon ( the grey segmented one, not the beach ball ) and remain stuck in this.
I've tried this on different systems using both the new Cintiq 21UX, the old Cintiq 21UX, the Cintiq WX, and a Wacom Intuos 4 XL, on Mac pros and Macbook Pros. Drivers are updated to the most current in all cases.
This only happens when using the stylus. The only way to get out of this without force quitting Photoshop is to use the mouse and click randomly outside the Photoshop interface. This includes the desktop and menu bar. When Photoshop finally snaps out of its funk, the Brush tool applies every click and movement in the canvas before the "unlock" of the Brush tool. Simply doing and undo will fix this.
This happens frequently and is pretty annoying. I've tried turning Open GL on and off but the effect is the same.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you.

if it was a big new feature like content aware-something or puppet warp i'm sure it would be fixed right away but since a small percentage of users use mac pro's, CS5 and Nvidia cards and also use painting tools, its not a big deal to adobe.
Quite the reverse: painting tools are used thousands of times more often than the new features.
We do take such problems seriously -- but frankly we've never seen this problem ourselves.
We have every variety of Macintosh, every video card, every OS version -- and no such problem when we're painting.
And we can't do much to solve a problem until we have a reproduceable case to examine.
What we do know is that a small number of people have problems when painting.  But we don't know what those people have in common other than running on MacOS.  Maybe they are all using NVidia cards, but we don't know for sure.
And the questions I posted were to rule out obvious problems.  (and font bugs in the MacOS are causing random memory corruption, which can manifest in odd ways)
Now we need more details.
What OS version are you using?
What haxies and utilities do you have installed?
What else separates your system from a clean install of the OS and applications?
What else makes your system different from everyone else's?

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    Operating System: Windows NT
    Version: 6.2
    System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:10, Stepping:9 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2
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    Processor speed: 3392 MHz
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    Free memory: 12108 MB
    Memory available to Photoshop: 14658 MB
    Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
    Image tile size: 128K
    Image cache levels: 4
    OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
    OpenGL Drawing Mode: Normal
    OpenGL Allow Normal Mode: True.
    OpenGL Allow Advanced Mode: False.
    OpenGL Crash File: Not Detected.
    OpenGL Allow Old GPUs: Not Detected.
    Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
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    Display Bounds:=  top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 1200, right: 1920
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       Access CS Live
       Flash
       Kuler
       CS Review
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