Photoshop CS4 tool box strange behaviour

Hi, one of our designer has this strange thing happening in Photoshop CS4 on her mac.  When she moves her cursor on the side tool box and clicks (single click and not holding the button) on the brush tool, she will have all related tools (brush, pencil and replace color tool) appearing at the same time as a list of icons, she will have to click again to have only the default tool.  Same thing happens with all tool icons that have a little black arrow beside them.  I cannot replicate that behavior on my mac, when I click the brush tool, I only get the brush tool selected.  Is that a preference thing?

Thank you for your response, Chris. However, I am now completely confused.
I seem to have two video cards on my system, an Intel HD3000 and an Nvidia NVS4200M. There were updates available for both at the respective manufacturer websites; so I am downloading them now. But I still have no clue why there are two graphics cards and if I can use one in preference over the other.

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