Deselecting Rectangular Marquee Selection in CS5

When using the Rectangular Marquee Tool, why can I no longer deselect my selection by simply clicking outside the selection? I've been doing it this way since Photoshop 1.0, but now it seems that I have to either use the Deselect command or switch to the Lasso in order to accomplish this extremely simple task. For me personally, this is a real pain in the you-know-what. Is there a way to change this behavior?

It turns out that when you select the rectangular marquee tool, several tiny icons appear in the left corner of the Toolbar. The first one is for "new selection", which causes the selection rectangle to behave normally. The next icon ("add to selection") causes the behavior I complained about. I must have unintentionally selected this option. Problem solved. Thanks!

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