Photoshop CS6 pixel ruler scale is illegible at alternating magnifications

Running PS CS6, Win 7 x64, 30" NEC display, nVidia Quadro FX 3800 display card.
Photoshop preference "UI Font Size" set to medium.
The attached image shows how Photoshop CS6 has an illegible vertical scale with medium or large UI fonts selected. I have found that as I zoom using ctrl plus key, the CS6 scale alternates between illegible overlapping characters and legible legends. So if I have an illegible scale, one magnification increment increase/decrease will make the scale legible, but two will make the scale garbled again. The scale increments appear to adjust to accomodate the scale numerals only a subset of magnifications.
If I set the UI pref to small fonts, the scale is always legible. At medium and large fonts settings, it has the alternating magnification level illegibility. It turns out that CS5 has the same problem when set to medium or large UI text preferences. I can run small fonts on PS CS5, but find the new interface on CS6 is harder to read - that's why I increased the UI preference to medium.

Thanks for the report BJN3!
I'll pass it on!

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