Crop Tool does not snap reliably

Still getting used to Photoshop CS5.1. I am having problems with the crop tool. It is supposed to snap to my guides, but it is very haphazard about this. Sometimes it is a pixel or 2 off on one or more edges. This means I have to pay very close attention while cropping, and double check the accuracy of results. This slows me way down. I do mostly web graphics, where pixel accurate crops are essential. I already tried resetting the crop tool. I am using a Mac Pro, early 2008, with 10 GB RAM, and Mountain Lion 10.8.1.

I think the the Crop Tool always snaps to pixels while it is initially dragged to size. If a guide is not precisely on a pixel boundary then the Crop Tool will not initially snap exactly to the guide - it should snap to the next outward pixel boundary.
After the initial dragging out of the crop box, slightly drag each of its sides away from the guide and back to the guide for a correct snap to the guide.
If your guides are supposed to be on pixel boundaries then the problem may be that they are a tiny bit off and so the Crop Tool is snapping to the next pixel boundary outwards. To ensure guides snap to pixels, set the ruler to pixels and hold down Shift while dragging a guide to make it snap to ruler divisions (regardless of the rulers actually being visible or not).

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