My pixel grid appears to be off.

The grid I have set up in photoshop seems to be misaligned. When I click the lower right quadrant of a square it colors the square on the lower right diagonal of it. If try to color it clicking the right half of it, the pixel next to it becomes colored. Clicking the left half of the pixel colors the correct one though. It seems like the grid isn't aligned properly. How do I fix this?
Thanks
Also, I just switched my grid subdivisions from 1 to 4 and the problem was gone, but none the less, why is it that with gridlines every 1 pixel and subdivision of 1 that the alignment of it is off?
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Were you viewing the image at Actual Pixel Size (Ctrl Alt 0 or Cmd Opt 0) ? If you were zoomed out, then there are bound to be discrepancies.
How does your grid sizing tally with the image size in both linear and pixel dimensions? If these are not multiples of each other (i.e. 10 grid divisions = 103 pixels) then, here again, you will have misalignment.

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