CS4 bug: Rectangle Marque Tool unwanted off-set

I feel like there are a lot of annoying bugs in CS4. The latest and greatest bug is with the Rectangle Marquee Tool (Selection Tool). When the tool is selected from the tool bar I get the cross-hairs/bar cursor icon, which is totally fine... instead of drawing the axis point from the very center of the cursor, it's off-set to the bottom of the cursor icon. In other words, It will always be 10-20 px off from where I actually want to make my selection...
May not be a big deal to most people, but when you're trying to select small pieces and move them, this should be accurate.
I dump my preference files, toggle workspaces. It's a temporary fix, is anyone else noticing this?

Yep, Ann has the band-aid solution. Unfortunately, it won't cure the disease but it does work to quickly get rid of the symptom.
You might also see this annoying behavior with other tools like offset brush cursors and the path tool. Same (temporary) fix - hit F a couple of times.
-phil

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