Curving lines harder in CS5.5 than in CS5

Hi,
I used to be able to draw a line with the Pencil Tool (in Ink Mode), click on it with the Subselection Tool (which would add a whole bunch of anchor points), and then move these anchor points around and they would beautifully curve this line.
Now, in CS5.5, all my lines are straight, and I have to use the Bézier handles instead to curve them. Achieving the kind of smooth flow between points as I did with CS5 though (as opposed to now with these pointy edges), is almost impossible.
So what happened?
I tried going to Edit -> Preferences -> Drawing and setting "Smooth curves" to "Smooth", but that had no effect.
--Dwayne

Hello
I'm a member of the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite forum. I encountered similar behaviour several times while working on magazines with DPS. Whenever I click on an element I copied from another document, InDesign opens the parent document.
Here is a video:
Watch on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZp1Vah2rdo
Follow the Discussion over there (no details on that there yet): http://forums.adobe.com/thread/927707?tstart=0
but seems connected with DPS, some other friends and clients have the same problem.
—Johannes
Message was edited by: Johannes Henseler (changed "same behaviour" to "similar behaviour" because it is not the same, but looks definetly related)

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