Bugs in scaling and alignment in Illustrator CS5

Hi
Am experiencing weird problems with Illustrator cs5 on osx 10.6.8:
Scaling - for some reason the image get distorted after scaling. see example:
Each time I scale it'll do it differently. this time it made the right side thicker.
Any idea why is that?
Alignment - the bounding box has offset and when aligning it doesn't align the objects right:
Any idea what I need to do to fix this?

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