Can't stroke a path with any tool in PS CS3

Hi, guys, I'm on a G5 Powermac, 1,5 GB RAM, 2GHz, running OS X 10.4.11, and I just got CS3 Web Premium. I'm discovering all the little changes the hard way. In Photoshop I have found that I can't stroke a path: I draw a path with the pen tool, check all the settings to make sure the brush is at 100%, it's a brush, I'm on the correct layer, the layer is at 100%, the path is selected, etc. I click on "stroke path" in the path menu, and what I get is unusable. There is a correctly-sized dot under each anchor point, but no stroke. If I delete the path, I'm left with these dots. It occurred to me that it could be an airbrush setting issue; I've seen airbrush strokes that looked a bit like this, but they didn't fall where the anchor points are. I called Applecare about it. We went over all the settings, found nothing out of order, they came up with a workaround that I can use pro tem, but finally they requested a copy of the file I was working on, and suggested that my video board driver was out of date. Problem still there. anybody heard about it?

McCann...
From everything I've been able to gather, the Dev teams for Photoshop and Illustrator don't share muchif anythingin the way of common tool coding. It sure would be nice if the vector tools in PS worked the same way, and with as many options as the AI tools, but they don't.
Quite frankly, it makes absolutely NO sense to me, from an application integration standpoint, or from a conservation of resources standpoint. But historically, I think it's because the 2 applications were created independently from each other, and there's so much legacy coding that isn't easily shared. IMHO, there are many good reasons to recommend that PS and AI be rebuilt from the ground up so that they can take advantage of a wider base of common coding. It might be a PITA early on, but it could only make things easier in the future versions.
So, no, Photoshop has never been intended to "replace" AI, no matter how many similar functions they may have.
On the other hand, from a bottom-line standpointwhy sell one app, when you can compel power users to buy 2?

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