In photoshop cs3 the crop function is corrupt

I have tried reinstalling photoshop from the disk but it doesn't fix the problem. The crop icon is now three items wide and the crop controls don't show up.

Welcome to the forum.
If JJMack's suggestion does not help, when you wrote:
The crop icon is now three items wide and the crop controls don't show up.
When I encounter GUI display issues, I check that I have the very latest video driver installed, by comparing my installed version vs the latest from the nVidia, or AMD/ATI Web sites.
Good luck,
Hunt

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bramfoto wrote:
I have a HP C4180 All-in-One Printer/Scanner; When i had my Windows system and I installed the Drivers, It became part of Photoshop via the TWAIN function, and allowed me to use the scanner through photoshop;
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From: smk2008design
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 4:40 PM
To: Steve Sprengel
Subject: Re: My hue/saturation filter quits working in Photoshop CS3
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