Cropping glitch in Photoshop CS3

My cropping tool has ceased working in Photoshop CS3. When I try and crop an image to any size the canvas instantaneously reduced to 1 px in size. I have been using the cropping tool for this software for many years and now this glitch has occurred. Can anyone help me get rid of this glitch so the cropping tool works as it should again?

It might be that you have a small value like 1 px inserted into the width, height or resolution fields.
You can reset just the Crop Tool by right clicking on the Crop icon in the tool options bar and chose Reset Tool

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