CS4 Photoshop & 10.6 - Tool cursor disappears

I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard and CS4. When using a tool such as Clone Stamp, Brush or whatever, the cursor disappears from the screen making it impossible to see what I'm doing. It doesn't matter what cursor setting I use in Preferences, it disappears when I click the mouse.

rwnicolson,
Thanks for the suggestion - you nailed it!
Turns out if Safari is opened to my home page (for me it's Yahoo News, http://news.yahoo.com/) the problem occurs. Other web pages no problem. It's very repeatable. Go to another page, no problem. Come back to Yahoo news, the problem comes back.
Thanks a bunch! Interesting that web page (and probably many others) cause the same problem for both PS and LR.

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2. Upon deleting my Photoshop preferences, it was briefly fixed, then returned.
3. I tired uninstalling , then shutting down and restarting, then reinstalling Photoshop - now the whole program crashes - apparently I have discovered ANOTHER known bug in Mountian Lion. Here's a quote from an Adobe employee - at least they will talk to me -
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raydsr wrote:
same problem here. Mountain Lion is terrible with Photoshop and Pro Tools.
apple, please listen and fix these issues or give us back Snow Leopard.
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It stuck around until I moved some more art around.
I had the same issue in Photoshop in CS2. Adobe came up with a temporary fix for it when I called their support. I have not tried to duplicate it in Photoshop in CS4 yet.
Should I take the machine to Apple's Genius Bar and get the video card looked at?

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