Problems with the elliptical marquee tool in CS6/Mac

I have CS6 and did the newest update yesterday. I'm working on Mac OS X 10.6.8. The problem is following:
The elliptical tool doesn't function anymore correctly. If I want to make an ellipse or circle first it looks normal put if I let go the mouse, it changes the shape in another form like square. Who knows whats wrong or how I can handle this?
Thanks in advance. Foto Pitt

How/where do I have to save that?
If you are quite new you may not have customized any Actions, Brushes etc.
But if you have you should regularly save those from the Panels’ fly-out menus or Edit > Presets > Preset Manager.
3rd party plug-ins deactivation -> How/where can I deactivate the plug-ins?
Do you have any plug-ins installed that were not part of the original program installation?
Boilerplate-text:
As with all unexplainable Photoshop-problems you might try trashing the prefs (after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences you’ve changed) by keeping command-alt-shift pressed on starting the program or starting from a new user-account.
System Maintenance (repairing permissions, purging PRAM, running cron-scripts, cleaning caches, etc.) might also be beneficial, Onyx has been recommended for such tasks.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html
Weeding out bad fonts never seems to be a bad idea, either. (Validate your fonts in Font Book and remove the bad ones.)
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/troubleshoot-fonts-photoshop-cs5.html

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