Funky axis dragging in CS3?

I am finding a weird bit of behaviour in Flash CS3. When
authoring, if I hold down 'shift' in order to drag a movieclip on
the stage along a single axis, the clip doesn't follow the initial
axis, as it did in previous versions. Instead, it inevitably jumps
its alignment by a few pixels, and then starts traveling along the
45º angle! What's going on??
Flash 9.0, OSX 10.4.10

I'm on a Mac and I have this problem quite often. In my case
it is when I want to drag horizontal. The ghost image of the
dragging item will jump up or down a bit and then start doing the
constrained motion.
I've been dragging constrained things since 1985, so I do
know how to do this and the correct sequence of clicking, pressing,
dragging, etc.
Pretty much I only use the arrow keys these days if I need
something to be moved in an exact way compared to its starting
point. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but at least you know you
aren't alone!

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