Inconsistent Alt - Right Click Brush Resizing in PS CS5

Anyone else seeing the new brush sizing gestures working inconsistently?
If I hold down the Alt key and click the right mouse button...
- Sometimes I see a red brush facsimile that I can resize or make harder/softer by moving the mouse right/left or down/up. I assume this is the intended behavior.
- Sometimes I see just an outline of the size, which I can resize by moving the mouse right/left. Hardness may be affected, but it's impossible to tell.
- Sometimes I can't use the gestures at all; Alt + Right Click simply does nothing.
I haven't been able to put my finger on it or investigate it in any great detail because I'm usually working on something and want to continue concentrating on that something. Usually I'm using the Spot Healing brush, or the Clone tool, or the Eraser tool, or the Paintbrush tool.
Complicating matters is the fact that I use both the 32 bit and 64 bit Photoshop CS5, and it's possible I have some setting different in one than the other. I've been trying to use them kind of interchangeably just to get to know them.
I just started both 32 bit and 64 bit versions (in succession) and tried all the above tools, and found that the second problem above was manifesting only in the 32 bit version. Then I noticed my OpenGL settings had disappeared again. I had thought the ATI 10.5 drivers had solved that, but apparently not - at least not completely. So I'm back to using the AllowOldGPUs_ON registry fix until the next ATI driver update. Sigh.
After the registry fix, and verifying OpenGL settings are "Advanced" on both 32 bit and 64 bit versions, I see the red brush for all the above tools.
I'll watch for the gestures going away again, and post the edit log (which I have enabled for detailed text logging).
-Noel

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