No Matter which tool I select I get Eraser Tool

I've been using CS4 problem free on my system until just the last 2 weeks.
The problem is that when I go to work on an image, no matter which tool is
actually selected, the eraser tool is applied. So, say I go to crop an image,
I select the crop tool, click on the image to draw my crop box and I get a
white line and in the history palette it says eraser. The problem goes away
temporarily if I reboot the computer but simply relaunching Photoshop makes
no difference. All I've been working on lately are small JPEGs about 1000 pixels
high. Also, I get no error messages. Oh also, I tried resetting the crop tool  and
that did nothing.
System specs;
Photoshop 11.0.1
OSX 10.5.8
RAM 5GB
First gen Octo (2007)
Thanks,

I just wanted to let anyone interested know that this was finally diagnosed as a HD going bad.
One of the HDs in my internal RAID finally bit the dust today and after pulling that out there
are no more tool issues. PS was using the RAID for a scratch disk.
I thought it was the Wacom driver but after a week the symptom reappeared.
And I tried everything to figure it out until this morning it made itself apparent.
Just another random thing that can happen with a dying drive.
Thanks again to those that offered suggestions,
Jeffrey

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