Over half the tools in Photoshop CS5 not responding

About half my tools on the PSCS5 tool bar will not work. Nothing iv'e tried remedy the problem, short of reinstalling the program. Tools that don't work are: move, marquee, magic wand, crop, pen, path selection, text, object rotate, and more. Even when I use keyboard shortcuts, they don't work either. I've tried clearing the settings, resetting, rebooting.
A symptom I notice is that my cursor arrow has a little box with three black lines in attached to it. The clone, ereaser, paint tools work normal. They show their usual cursor symbols. My normal cursor is a black arrow. Now in CS5 I have an arrow with line skymbol attached to it.
Dose anyone know what the symbol means and how to remidie the problem? I also have the same CS5 program on my Macbook Pro. All tools work properly.

I use Photoshop all day in my job, and have for years. This is the first time the tools have locked. I can't change from one marquee to another. More are joining this little strike: burn won't change to dodge, magic wand to its variant, etc. Crop works but every photo comes into the dialog box as having a pixel count of 1 per inch.
Tech support has over an hour wait. Anyone have a suggestion?
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