CS2 freezes and eraser tool set for circular brush shows crosshairs

Suddenly my CS2 has started to act up. First, after opening a file and start to do a background erasing, the brush shows up as crosshairs. after a brief time of working with those limitations, when I click on the downdown menus, they get highlighted, but nothing drops down. If I try to close the file or the program, all I get is a warning "ding".

And the real weird part is that the last time I closed it via task manager, it suddenly works just fine. That being said, I am running Windows 7 Home Premium on a Gateway with Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200  2.33 ghz
When it started I had not installed any updates of any kind nor installed any new programs in over a week. Basically the only thing that has changed, if anything, is that I am using CS2 daily for the past week. Before that it was maybe once a week..

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