Crazy selections with Preview "Select" tool.

I recently installed Lion OS and Adobe Acrobat X as default pdf viewer.  Then I prefered Preview better and reset Preview to be the default pdf viewer.  Now I cannot use the "Select" tool to copy-paste a piece of a pdf to Word--it copies a random part that matches the size but it is not my selection.
Any hints on how to solve this issue?  I really need to copy pdf parts to Word.
Thanks.

Hi and thanks for prompt reply.
Deleting the preference file did work but only because it reset the app to the defaults.
For some reason I had View>PDF Display>Media Box selected (perhaps I selected it when I did not have a crop set so it appeared to do nothing).
If I choose View>PDF Display>Crop Box instead it shows the image cropped and so appears to have copied only the selection - but has still copied the full page and so the view can be reset back from the cropped extent to the full page even after saving the new document as it saves the full document and the crop info - this does not seem logical and may result in info that was not supposed to be sent to someone being visible - often I crop an image to send only the relevant part to someone.
The only way to force it to create a pdf that contains only the selected items is to print the cropped image to a pdf.
I suggest that when only part of the image is selected and copied to the clipboard Preview should create a new document that is the extent of cropped image only if rather than copying the entire page and also the crop info.
Thanks & regards,
Steve

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