CS4 Clone/Eraser tool artifacts

I am using Photoshop CS4 on Vista. It was installed as a complete student version program.
I have been using other versions of PS for 6 years. This is the first time this has happened.
When I clone or erase more then one area in a photo I get an artifact several inches away.
Sometimes it is a streak of several inches long. Other times it is a small duplicate of my clone or eraser in another area of the image. I have searched the forums both on and off Adobe and no one has heard of it.
Can you help?
Ken

Certain functions in CS4 require OpenGL drawing to work properly.
If they are not working properly it may be the fault of the video card, so turning OpenGL off stops the funny behaviour but you lose some of the new functionality.
This Knowledge Base article tells more:
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb404898

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I installed CS4 on a Dual Pentium Xeon 2.4ghz Compaq W8000 system with 3GB of RD 800mhz RAM and Windows XP Pro w/SP3 and all updates. The video card is a ATI Radion AGP-3855 w/512 GDDR3 RAM with latest drivers.
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Good point and thanks for suggesting the clone source features. I can see that it has tremendous potential and will revisit it to see if it will benifit my work. My immediate problem was that overlay was on as a default and it was not obvious to me where to address it.
I have not used this forum before as I have a couple of gurus I lean on, but was really impressed by the immediate help I recieved here.
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