Help! Poorly rendered paint brush scribbles at 1 point width

I have a graphics tablet (Wacom DTU-1631) hooked up to my Mac and I'm using it in Illustrator to capture handwriting and drawings during presentations (the Mac's screen is being projected onto a wall and the idea is to not use a whiteboard). I am using the paintbrush tool set for a 100% round brush size of 1 point within an 8.5x11 document. I put the pen on the tablet's screen and as I write cursively I clearly see my handwriting being faithfully reproduced. However once I lift the pen, Illustrator seems to increase the thickness of my writing to the extent that lower case e's and o's often completely fill in their enclosed loops. I zoomed in on those mal-formed characters and it surely looks like Illustrator is doing a very poor job rendering the resultant paths. I wish I could post a picture of it! I try the same thing in e.g. InkScape and it works just fine. If I select a bigger brush size it forces me to obviously write bigger and then the bad path rendering effect rapidly diminishes, but I want/need to use a size of about 1-point and 2-point is too big. Anybody know if this is a bug or if it's pilot error at my end?

Just got into work and checking email. I'm very impressed by the amount of assistance being offered in these forums!
Anyway, I'll try to answer all questions posed so far:
The tablet I'm using is a Wacom DTU-1631 (it's GREAT)
http://www.wacom.com/pendisplays/DTU1631-technical-specifications.php
I agree that at first glance it seems I'm doing tiny writing on an 8.5x11 page, but 1 point is still about the right size after printing. Not much different to the line thicknesses of regular readable text. While drawing on the tablet I'm zoomed in to about 1/3 of a page and navigate up and down via scroll bars.
The stroke width I have selected is 1 point. I have the fill set to invisible so that a drawn squiggle doesn't visually turn into a closed shape filled with some color. I made my own brush definition of 1 point round. Even zoomed in at 1600x I can see these annoying effects happening.
Now here's a good observation. I can select any of the mangled loops and in the Brush Definitions pull down menu I can choose 'Basic' and it cleans it up perfectly! However, I'm darned if I can figure out how to make "Basic" be the default. When I pre-select "Basic" and then draw a shape it changes back to my 1 Point Round definition when I lift the pen and I get a mangled shape again. I have attached a picture of a mangled shape which I copied and then selected and then set the copy's brush definition to "Basic". That fixed it nicely. Now if I can only figure out how to make "Basic" stick, or integrate "Basic" into the default style, I reckon I'll be all set...

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