Pasted smart objects are distorted in CS6

Any time I paste an object from AI into PS, it's getting horizontally squashed. Here's an example:
1. 12x12 pixel circle in Illustrator, aligned to pixel grid.
2. Pasted into Photoshop as a Smart Object, it's visibly distorted (12x11), but the W/H is inaccurately labeled 100%.
3. After pasted, if I select Edit > Transform > Scale, now the starting W/H are shown with the accurate distorted values.
This is driving me nuts. Can anyone suggest a fix, or is this a bug?

You could be correct that the bad AA is a Mac-only Ps problem. We need more participants to see if any Windows user is affected.
An Illustrator-saved AI or PDF placed into Ps results in the very same bad rendering as a paste. A slightly different but similarly bad AA arises when the placed file is an Illustrator-saved EPS.
The AA bug appears to be related to Photoshop's rasterizing of vector files rather than something to do with the clipboard.
There is no improvement by pasting into a new document created with clipboard dimensions. I had already tried that and I've rechecked now.
Here's an example comparing Ps CS5.1 and CS6 using the same clipboard content. The very same results happen when placing the design as a vector file in the two versions of Ps.
1. Object in Illustrator CS5.1 that's copied to clipboard.
2. The transformation opportunity of the paste into Ps CS5.1. The height is short by a pixel.
3. After correcting the height and committing. A perfect rasterization.
4. The transformation opportunity of the paste into Ps CS6. The height is correct.
5. After committing. A terrible rasterization with gray pixels which should be white.
Other examples will result in the height being initially wrong in Ps CS6 and the height being initially correct in CS5, which is the opposite of this one, and the rendering being differently bad in each version of Ps.

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