CS4 Rectangular Marqee & Guides Bugs Identified

One of the first things I noticed upoin upgrading was that any rectangular marquee selection appears 1 pixel to the right of the pixel snap point. Interestingly, guides brought in with snap-to-pixel appear just to the left (x-plane) or above (y-plane). See below for some screen captures I refer to in my analysis:
http://cstashuk.aristotle.net/cs4/
GUIDES:
When bringing in guides I was snapping-to-pixel and I even watched the Info dialog window showing I was snapped to the pixel location of 100, only to let go of the mouse button and see the guides "shifted slightly". The grey line that appears while you are moving/establishing the guide does however click to pixels as I am moving the mouse. See "ps_cs4_guides.gif" to make the point. These are guides brought in at 100 pixels on both the x and y axis. It shows the red guides shifted slightly which I suppose is not such a big deal, but why has this changed from ALL earlier versions. For someone who is trying to use guides to insure exact crpping, this is disappointing.
RECTANGULAR MARQUEE:
The other samples I posted show how snap-to-pixel rectangular marquee selections are off on the left side only (see samples 1-3). Note however that sample "ps_cs4_marquee_circular" which shows that the circular marquee successfully represents it left "x=0" location.
I would love to know if anyone has solved these issues. Thanks in advance!!
Christopher

Ann,
Check your Photoshop 11 Preferences > Performance > GPU Settings > Advanced Settings > GL Settings >
Advanced Drawing
This last box should be grayed out because you're running a PPC machine. It's certainly grayed out on my machine.
Folks with Mac-Intel boxes have full access to all Advanced Drawing options, including a box for
Use for Image Display.
If they have that enabled, I can see it making some pretty heavy demands on the graphics card. Those of us running G4 and G5 boxes don't have to worry about that. ;)

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