Fw Pen Tool Bugged - Can't Create Points w/ a click

So I don't use Fireworks much, but am trying to start. Am I wrong in thinking that just CLICKING somewhere on the canvas with the Pen Tool should add a point? Because it's not happening for me. The only way it adds a point is if I click and drag - which always creates a curve with handles. In Photoshop and Illustrator just clicking on the canvas creates a point that you can continue. What could be the problem?
I've tried restarting my Mac, trashing Fireworks' preferences, fiddling with the mouse/touchpad click settings, ... nothing seems to work. And I know it can't be the Mac itself because this function works in AI/PS. Do I have something accidentally enabled that doesn't allow you to create a bloody point? I can't even believe I have to post on here for such a simple task.
Any help would be appreciated...

Re-installing Fireworks seems to have done the trick.
Just posting this solution for the rare few that may ever have this problem... I have no idea what was wrong, though. I actually couldn't click ANYTHING - the zoom tool didn't work either unless I clicked and dragged.
Scratch all that, re-installing had no effect whatsoever.
The problem is with a program I have running, SweetFM that plays music from Last.fm. There seems to be some sort of conflict between it and Fireworks! So yeah... don't run SweetFM while using Fireworks, I guess.

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artisttouch,
If you cannot close the Pen Tool by switching to another tool, as a temporary measure you may try pressing P (for Pen).
To solve it, you may try the list.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
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5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

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I'm sure this has been discussed, but I don't find the thread. Here is my issue:
When closing an open path by clicking the end point, AI does not recognize "Option" or "Spacebar" modifier keys as it should. The option key should allow me to control the direction point independant from the corresponding anchor point, while the spacebar should allow me to move the active anchor point, while the mouse is still down. This is exactly how Photoshop CS6 works (this was an upgrade for Photoshop).
Here is a short video illustrating the "bug" in Illustrator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=g5ViHSLJ_SM
Please let me know if you share my concern about this pen tool bug.

Thanks, Monika. I'd like to see this fixed. We need parity with pen tool between PS and AI.
Funny, I saw my error on "parody" just now.
While I'm on "parity"; I'd like to see the zoom feature act the same in AI and PS. Now that I'm finally used to "click-drag" zooming in PS, I'm driving myself crazy in AI, trying to do the same thing.
Message was edited by: rcraighead

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Re-installing Fireworks seems to have done the trick.
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Scratch all that, re-installing had no effect whatsoever.
The problem is with a program I have running, SweetFM that plays music from Last.fm. There seems to be some sort of conflict between it and Fireworks! So yeah... don't run SweetFM while using Fireworks, I guess.

PEN TOOL PUTS DOWN THE WRONG POINTS???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FVCKING HELL GUYS
I'VE BEEN BlTCHlNG ABOUT THIS **** FOR HALF AN HOUR ALREADY BC WHY THE FVCK IS MY PEN TOOL PUTTING DOWN THE POINTS AT THE WRONG PLACES???!!!!!!!!!! LIKE 'I WANNA PUT A POINT RIGHT HERE AND OOPS FVCKING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR PUT IT ON THE FAR LEFT INSTEAD'

b,
As John says, you may have a look at Align to Pixel Grid. You may select everything and then untick Align to Pixel Grid in the Transform palette if needed, and also untick Align New Objects to Pixel Grid in the flyout options.
You may avoid document types with that as default (RGB for web and the like) or change the default for such documents.
But based on your mentioning on the far left may indivate something else.
Especially if it is something happening in any document, you may try the list.
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2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
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The Adobe people do look here in this forum, and also (possibly moreso) at the Photoshop.com site:
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Given that the pen tool slowdown persisted throughout all the CS6 updates so far, and also in the first CC versions, I wouldn't hold my breath that it will be fixed in Photoshop CS6. I don't sense a lot of work going back into that version.
I assume you're using Photoshop CS6 because you'd rather not subscribe to the cloud, but at some point you may need to either buy into it or accept that the newest subscription software is going to move on and ultimately be better than what you have.
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