Brush preview size / Size of actual brush stroke do not match?

Hello.
I recently acquired a Macbook Air (2012 version) and it came with CS5 extended preloaded. Everything seems to be working fine, with the exception of these two things:
1. Whenever I select any--that means any--brush and put down a dot or stroke, the width of the stroke is ALWAYS smaller than the preview size for the brush.
With the brush preview size on the left, the dot comes out the size of the dot on the right.
2. The pencil tool has the same exact problem. Also, when I use the pencil tool, the little cross in the middle of the brush preview becomes offset a little bit down and little bit to the right on every even number. (e.g., cross is centered in 3px brush, offset in 4px brush, centered in 5px brush, offset in 6px brush.
I've reset my brush settings multiple times. As far as I can tell, this isn't an issue of any individual brush setting.
As someone who does a lot of pixel art, this has basically brought my work to a full stop. I would greatly appreciate some help.
Cheers.

Which version of mac os x are you using?
Look under System>Preferences>Accessibility>Display and see if the Cursor Size is set to something other than Normal
(you want the Cursor Size set to Normal)

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