No Brush Cursor & It's Not Caps Lock!

I've been trying to get my cursor to display Brush size in Illustrator CS 5.1 and I only get the Paintbrush icon, or if I hit Caps Lock the Precision crosshair. I'm at a loss, in Photoshop I can set up cursor options with no problem, but the only setting I can find in the preferences in Illustrator is to "Use precise cursors" which does not display brush size. I have googled this topic and everyone only mentions the Cap Lock issue.
Believe me, I am well aware of what caps lock does to brush display and that is NOT the issue here. I just simply cannot get my cursor to display the brush size. Any suggestions that you can throw my way would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I do not have this problem with displaying Brush sizes on my cursor in Photoshop.

cant be done:
brush in AI is COMPLETLY different to a brush in PS (Obv).
let me try explain: you dont use a brush in Illy to paint, you use it to "decorate" a stroke. Now: The brush setting may be a round brush at 10 pt, and your default stoke at 1 pt. What "size" circle must show? Or a calligraphy brush... as illy must calculate the appearence of the brushed sroke? Then what about decorative brusher with floral designs which will be so different through the stroke. Then there are scatter brushes, pattern brushes... how big must the "circle" be then...
I cant see what you want EVER happening or featuring in illustrator.
hope that clarifies things,
G

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