Mouse cursor flicker (over links)

When moving over links, the mouse cursor very quickly flickers when changing from the arrow to hand pointer.
I've uploaded a slow-mo clip http://youtu.be/ZNQ0D84DdF4 which best demonstrates exactly what's happening. I had to film using a camera as the screen recorder was not quick enough capture the flicker.
This happens in all browsers and even the App Store app.

Another update, I have a software fix - by editing the info.plist file for the pointinghand cursor to alter the x/y positions.
System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HI Services.framework/Versions/A/Resources/cursors/pointinghand/info.plist
I made changes to hoty, hoty-scaled, hotx and hotx-scaled and after some trial and error managed to get rid of the flicker and still have the hand cursor appear in the correct place on rollover/out
values i used are :
hoty 6
hoty-scaled 10
hotx 8
hotx-scaled 12
I used xcode to edit the plist file, then a restart for the changes to take effect.

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