In psd CS6 selection tool problems

Please help, since upgrading to CS6 (I had CS5 before, which I loved), I have had the following problems: 1. the elipse tool will not let me drag it to a circle, it remains an elipse. 2. My polygonal lasso tool will not automatically deselect when I begin another selection, which is greatly slowing me down, as I have to deselect and then reselect. Yet the regular lasso and magnetic lasoo work properly. 3. My rectangle marquis tool will deselect when I make a new selection, but it will not let me drag it to where I want it (a minus sign appears) - I have to use my arrow to move it, yet the elipse tool will let met drag it over, although it has the other problem of not being a circle. I have had all the versions of psd since day one, and never had these problems. I do not use too many shortcut keys. I am wondering if I accidentally hit some keys that messed everything up? I hate to re-set psd because I have all my styles and brushes, etc. set the way I want. Please help, I have 1000's of images to photoshop and I depend on these tools!

You have set the Tool to »New Selection«, so I don’t know what the issue is.
Just to make sure: After you have dragged out the Marquee is Select > Deselect grayed out?
In case of mysterious issues you could always try trashing prefs by pressing command-alt-shift/ctrl-alt-shift while starting Photoshop until the appropriate dialog appears after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences you’ve changed.

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