Illustrator CMYK test / help

Hello Folks,
Just wondering whether any one could do a test for me in regards to Illustrator CS3?
If I create a new document, in CMYK and the start to draw shapes,for example black on red, I get a weird jagged shape around the edge, sort of like a bitmap. It looks like this (zoomed in):
http://mybrokenshoe.com/misc/tesr.jpg
However if i then change the set the Document Colour Mode to RGB it disappears.
If it then switch back to CMYK it doesn't not return, until I start a new document...
Is it possible for any one to test whether this happens on their CS3?
Or Do i have some weird setting turned on?
Any help would be much appreciated...
thanks
nath
Imac - OSX 10.4

But I don't think Nathan's intent is to export his images as raster images, I think he intends to finally use Illustrator to create final vector art for print. (Although it sounds like he has been rasterizing his Illustrator images and finishing them in photoshop in the past.)
Nathan, if you are going to take responsibility for a CMYK print file, you probably should read up a bit on print production. A variant of what you are seeing onscreen can happen in print. This is usually taken care of in the trapping by someone else further down the line from the Illustrator. But you should find out if you need to set your own overprints or not.
I have seen printers who should have taken responsibility for setting small black text and line work overprints not do so, so I always ask, or just set my own. Same for rich black.
I don't do any other trapping type work, though, unless I am specifically instructed to do so.

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