Cursor seems to stick on Hand Icon, CS5

I am a professional retoucher and have been using Photoshop since it's earliest days, (I pre-ordered CS5 as I have to be more up to date than any of my clients) I also bought a brand new Mac to run it on, as top spec as I could find.
Sometimes during an image edit my cursor will get stuck on the hand (panning tool). No matter what I try, I can't clone, erase etc even though the clone/erase tool is selected. I can even change brush shapes, but the cursor remains as a hand and the tool I want doesn't work. It will only go back to the tool I want after a prolonged wait, (maybe 3 minutes or so) and even quiting and restarting photoshop doesn't do the trick.
It's getting to be the bain of my life at the moment and embarrassing when retouching with a client watching.
I originally posted this on the 'Elements - Windows XP' thread as there was some discussion about it there, but they seem to think its a 'sticky' keyboard. It's definitely not a sticky keyboard. I have closed PS, and sent an email while it reopened, same problem on opening.
Any other ideas.

I would suspect a hardware-factor, too.
You do have you tried tapping the space-bar repeatedly (and with some force)?
Have you tried trashing prefs (though that does seem unlikely to help)?
If it should indeed be some software problem you may want to provide more info on your system, though.

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