Crop Tool bug!

Hi All,
I've got Photoshop CS3 (10.0.1) installed on Leopard (10.5.1) and am having trouble with the crop tool.
Measurements input into the Width and Height fields don't appear and only way to fix it is to restart the application. Its worth noting that this bug only occurs after using the tool once. The first time the tool is selected it works perfectly, on subsequent uses this bug occurs.
I'm using a 20" Aluminium iMac, 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo, 4gb RAM, 256mb Nivida Graphics Card.
Any info on this would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
David

Could be a bug. There seem to be a lot of them with CS3 and Leopard.
But, I'd at least try trashing/resetting Preferences.

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