Illustrator CS5 Rectangle Object Measurments and Strokes

Hi Guys. I'm hoping you can help me as this is driving me absolutely nuts.
I'm running CS5.
I can't set a rectangle or rounded rectangle to have a stroke less than 1pt. When I select .25pt or .5pt it defaults back to 1pt.
I tried to set an object style with a .25pt stroke and on the rectangles it is defaulting back to 1pt again.
Similarly, with rectangles, if I set a custom width (ie - enter 6mm W) it changes to something rediculous like 5.83mm
The size boxes are not linked.
I don't have "Use preview bounds set".
I've turned off snapping.
I've never had this issue with CS through to CS4, and to repeat, is only happening on rectangles and rounded rectangles, even those created manually with the pen tool.
Any ideas? Is this a known bug?

It is probably due to the "Align to Pixel Grid" - the newly introduced functionality in CS5. This property is ON by default for the Web document profile. If you want to turn OFF this property for a particular object then select the object, open the transform panel and unckeck "Align to Pixel Grid" and then set the stroke to .25 pt. If you need to this for all the object then you  can use another New document profile or turn OFF the setting while creating a new Web document. This is there in the Advanced section of the New document dialog.

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