PS CS4 grid appearing at 600% zoom

I've noticed something odd happening once I zoom into an image >= 600%. If you look at the attached images, I have a document with a black background (for an example). Once I zoom to 600%, I see a faint grid (even when grid is turned off "no-grid.jpg"). If I turn the grid on at this point, you will see what happens with "with-grid.jpg".This also seems to happen with basically any background color except white. If I have a white background, even zooming to 3200%, I do not see the querk as descibed above.
In my preferences under guides, grids, and slices, I have a gridline every 1 pixel with 1 subdivision (just like I've always had in previous PS versions). Does anyone know what's going on here?

Well, I understand about seeing pixels better because I've always used "show grid" when I want to edit at the pixel level. What I'm noticing now is pixel grid seems to properly outline the pixel, but show grid (even though I have the preferences set to show a gridline every 1 pixel) seems to outline the pixel incorrectly. This is why when I "show grid" along with "pixel grid" at the same time, I'm seeing that misaligned grid (screenshot in my original post). So the error is coming from "show grid". If you can take a look at the attached psd, I have 3 layers of a screenshot. You will see "show grid" places a gridline not quite 1 pixel in width. I'm sure the other layers are self explanatory.
EDIT: apparently this stupid forum will not allow me to upload a .psd file (even though it's not listed in the exclusion list next to the browse button). You can download it at http://www.shan-dysigns.com/photoshop/pixel-grid.psd

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