Error when holding Shift to constrain a brush stroke.

When we hold Shift while painting with the brush or pencil tool the stroke is constrained to a 180, 90 or 45 degree angle.
This is helpful, however, ever since CS4, when we do this, a faint brush line appears to connect the end of the first stroke with the beginning of the next creating all sorts of unwanted effects. This happens regardless of where we make the next stroke.
The only way of not having this happen is to keep reselecting the brush tool (keypoard shortcut B) after each stroke. When there are many lines to draw, doing this creates unnecessary delay in workflow.
Has anyone found the same problem or perhaps a solution to this?

If you insist on working that way, try turning on the grid. When you get to the end of a brush stroke, release the mouse button, and make sure the cursor is close to the end of the last stroke before starting your next stroke. So long as you have 'snap to grid' turned on, this will prevent any overrun - if that is what is causing you problems. But much better to do what advised in #1 and realease the shift key > move to the next point, and hold down the Shift key while clicking with the mouse.
A nice quick way to set the grid to a useful spacing is to use the Image size dialogue window, and change the resolution setting with Resample unchecked. A higher resolution makes wider grid spacing.

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Work the issue from another end. Post a copy of the kernel panic report:
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I was having Safari (v3.2.1) problems in that it was hanging only a few seconds after launch and followed the advice I read on a couple of threads to launch Safari holding down the shift key.
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Thanks for that.
I've had so many problems with Safari over the last 24 hours or so that I have carried out all the procedures I have found on here - including the one you suggest) numerous times. Of course, I forgot that when I delete the preferences, this setting reverts to its default state, i.e. on. Hence it was on when I checked. I've deselected it now and it seems to be working. I'm not being too optimistic, though, as I have been at this point before and it has all gone terribly wrong again in a very short time - back to Safari hanging after a few seconds.
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Adobe Photoshop Version: 13.0.1 (13.0.1 20120808.r.519 2012/08/08:21:00:00) x64
Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit
Version: 6.1 Service Pack 1
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I love Smart Guides. I'm very glad they've been added to InDesign. I had even put in a feature request years ago. However, there is a flaw. When I am Option-dragging to drag a copy of an object, and holding Shift so that the new object is horizontally aligned to the old object, sometimes Smart Guides forces my new object a bit up or down. Seemingly over-eager to please, it is trying to align to something else; in a recent instance, being evenly distributed with some other objects.
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Just tried that and it makes no difference whether I hit shift before or during. Oddly enough, if I just let the Smart Guides do the work instead of shift, it will work, but adding shift makes it decide to try to evenly distribute to some other objects instead.
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