Marquee selection in CS4 "crops" to image edges. How to reset?

In CS3, when you make a large selection using the circular marquee (ie: alt-drag until the selection grows past the image edges), it maintains the full selection. But in CS4, it crops to the edges of the image. Is there an option to fix this so marquees behave like they did in CS3?
See the image below for an example of what I mean:

the_wine_snob wrote:
Thank you for the report. Now, did the Layer (Selected and active), have pixels beyond the borders of the image?
To answer the question, yes. But... drawing a marquee and then dragging it out works irrespective of layer content.
Just checked again:
1/ In CS3, drawing marquee, irrespective of content, retains the circular shape even if exceeding the canvas.
2/ In CS4, irrespective of content, marquee crops to the two sides of the canvas with the circular shape that was inside.
3/ In both CS3 and CS4 you can draw a marquee within the canvas and then drag it out
Maybe there's a setting in CS4????
PS - I just cannot imagine any Selection encompassing any area, where no pixels can be selected, as there are none.
Hunt... that doesn't make sense... of course you can draw a marquee / selection without content... It's the copying / cutting /etc. that will be affected...
PS: For some strange reason, i see you're back to 'the_wine_snob'!! At least in the message quote!

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