Odd Illustrator question

I'm using CS6, Adobe Illustrator. I placed a .png image with transparent background on my illustrator document and I want to use the bezier tool to create simple shapes on top of it. But when I click to create a point, the point appears a few pixels away from where I click - above, below, to the right or the left, nothing consistent. I tried using the direct selection tool to drag the point to the right location, but it jumps past where I want it to go. This is so even if I lock the .png image and create a new layer upon which to draw the simple shapes. I've also made sure 'snap to' is not checked (although in this case it seems to be snapping away from, rather than to.
The only way I can get the bezier points where I want them is to painstakingly adjust the x and y coordinates for each one until ends up where I want it to be. I tried using an .ai file, thinking I would create a clipping mask to remove the background, but of course I couldn't create an accurate clipping mask, for the same reason.
I've used Illustrator for many years and have never encountered this before. Can anyone help?
Thanks!
Maggie

Maggie,
It sounds like the effect of some Align/Snap to something issue, so you may need to look for the offending one and turn it off.
The newly added bug > sorry > feature of this kind is the Align to Pixel Grid. It may be unticked in the Transform panel, in two places/options, one for the selected object, one for new objects.
Edit: Hi Doug.
Strangly, the first post only turned up after my posting #2.

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