Brushes acting goofy

We've just installed CS4 in our classroom here and there seems to be a glitch with the brushes. On Our Mac's they are behaving fine, but on our 64bit XP machines the brushes seem to have a problem. When we resize a brush (brush,clone stamp,healing)at a certain size, parts of the brush disappear, as if its in a box and only a part of the cursor edge is visible. As we increase the brush size, less and less becomes visible so there may only be a few degrees of arc showing. Strangely, the size at which the affect takes place is consistent with screen size NOT with the image size. Any Ideas?

Update your NVidia video card drivers - it's a known bug in older drivers.

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