Opacity problem in CS3

Layer opacity is 100%. I select an area and delete it. But in the deleted area there remains a pale transparent remnant of the image I just deleted. Plus, the area outside the selection has become slightly transparent. Tiff or psd, same result. I save it as a jpeg, and the ghost image remains.
Also, when I fill a selected area with solid white, it lightens the area as if the layer was transparent.
G4, OS10.4, PS v.10,
What am I doing wrong?

In desperation I reinstalled the program last night.
It’s behaving nicely today. I’ll probably never know what the exact problem was, but the default settings seem to have put it right.
Thanks to both of you for your quickness and willingness to help. It gets very lonely when things go haywire.

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