Clone Stamp Tool & Spot Healing Brush Tool going wild

Both of subject tools often 'go wild' on me when I am working on an image. Either tool will race across an image in a straight line and leave either a cloning or spotting mark [straight line].
I suspect this has something to do with insufficient memory. However I have 4 GB RAM and am not running any other big program while doing the cloning/spotting.
Even if I 'give it some rest' this strange behavior will continue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
christian
ps. Attached is a tiny sample, circled in red.

It is essential to update Photoshop to version 11.0.1!
If that doesn't help, see if it still happens with OpenGL turned off.
Is that two video cards? Neither number is shown on the Adobe list.
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/405/kb405711.html

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