CS4 Pen Tool problem

I'm using CS4 on a Mac OS X 10.5.5 and I can't for the life of me figure out why when using the pen tool my a anchor points are coming out the back of the pen... literally. So when I click and think its going where I tell it to, it comes out the back. I'm losing my mind.. any ideas ? Please tell me I'm an idiot and it's a simple fix
Thanks for any help

Simple enough to work out, every time you reset the screen mode (F key) it has to redraw the entire workspace. So graphics card has ro re-render
The displacement I think, although I'm not sure, may have something to do with rulers (command R), and accomodating the ruler space. CS4 is the first time they wrote all the Open GL features, and they made some decision at the start that certain older versions of Open GL could not be fully supported for some reason. If you upgrade your graphics card you will find that this problem dissappears.

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