CS4 trial - transform tool frags my graphics!!

Anybody else have problems with the transform tool? on my iMac it's instant-death to my work and messes up my icons in the dock too - it really is like throwing a frag-grenade into my computer's graphics! I have to restart my mac to restore everything back to normal.
Test this at your own risk - and I highly recommend saving anything important before you do! My first encounter with this problem was to use the lasso tool to select an area I wanted to rotate just a fraction and when I hit cmd-T everything just froze and went horrible graphically. Also I noticed that I was unable to see the selection line of the lasso tool as I was using it
24" iMac (white) running OSX v10.5.5
2.33GHz intel core2 duo
3GB ram
NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB

Ok I now feel quite 'over-reactive' O_o; - just took a deep breath and tried it again (have been staying well away from the transform tool since it happened) and ...nothing - it worked like a dream - perfect! - ok so went into the gpu settings under performance prefs and I only had '3D interaction acceleration' ticked - I ticked the 'advanced drawing' box and tried again - bam! photoshop freezes and everything goes iffy. I think we found the issue! Since it happened last I have been tweaking the performance prefs to reduce brush lag so must have un-ticked it then.
for your info I have 140GB free disk space and do not have a separate scratch. I have 2GB Ram allocated to photoshop.

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