Deleting path segment

Question

I recently upgraded from CS3 to CS5. I'm trying to do something I routinely did in CS3; when I wish to delete a vector path line segment, I add an anchor point anywhere along the segment and hit "delete". This deletes only the line segment and leaves an open path (this is a work-around, since PSD does not have a "cut" tool, like AI).
This process is not working in CS5. It seems to work on a simple rectangle, but on more complex, multi-line paths, deleting a point deletes the entire path. I opened the same file in CS3 and the process works as expected. Has anyone else run into this? Or do you have another work-around for deleting one line segment from a path?
Thanks,
Ray

Answer 1

While I'm on my rant, I'd sure like to see the "hold spacebar to move anchor point" feature added to PSD. It's a great time-saver in AI and should be in PSD.
Oh, then please let me rant back: Illustrator’s Path closing behaviour is in my eyes remarkably inadequate and the Illustrator team should adopt Photoshop’s way of respecting an existing bezier handle when closing or picking up a Path.
Edit: Experienced users should in my opinion be considered as potentially capable of having acquired an intuitive grasp of what a bezier handle indicates and therefore able to create the first (curve-)point’s handles the way they want them (naturally later corrections may still be necessary).
Illustrator removing the backward handle on closing a Path seems therefore somewhat peculiar to me – does whoever decided on that behaviour consider Illustrator users incapable of that much foresight?
Why would you want to use the space-bar which is assigned to moving the canvas?
With the Pen Tool selected command-clicking a point to move it works just fine – but maybe I misunderstand your issue.
Could you post an image with Paths that don’t work properly?