CS5 Move dialog box angles

I've been using ai for many years. As far back as I can remember if you select an item and have either of the arrow tools as your current tool, hit the return key or double click either arrow tool you get the move dialog box. Everything in CS5 seems to be working the same until I try to move something up or down. I've always used positive numbers to move up and negative to move down. Now it's the opposite in CS5 (I don't know about CS4 since I've never purchased that upgrade). If I change the angle at the bottom of the box from 90° to -90° it works the way I'm used to, but the angle doesn't stick. Does/has anyone run into this and found out why or how to fix it? It doesn't seem to matter where I put the ruler zero at.
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Mac OSX 10.6.3

Fruit,
I think the Illustrator team was really listening to its users, who for many many years have been shouting from the rooftops to change the Ruler origin (0,0) to Top Left of the artboard.
I am not sure about the rooftops; maybe we shall see answers tt that here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2857555#2857555
Illustrator had been the exception to this rule (with its ruler origin at bottom left) when compared to other Adobe products like Photoshop & InDesign which had their ruler origin at the top left.
... and are all inherently (apart from PS) based on the conventions of Western writing:
and Illy was not but is now an exception when compared with corresponding applications such as FH, Draw, Canvas, Xtreme.
Agreed that some users will find the change not to their liking but that is how it works - no company can satisfy all its users all the time.
They, could by making it optional. Still, as shown in post #4, it is doable.

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