Quick Mask selecting entire photo, not just the area I've painted - CS4

Out of the blue, my Quick Mask selecting has stopped working.  Normally I enter QM and paint the area I'm interested in with the brush tool.  The selected zone appears in red.  When I exit QM the red zone is replaced by a dotted line.  But now, when I exit QM the entire photo is selected, not just the areas I painted with the brush.  I must have hit the wrong button somehow, but I can't figure out which one it was, or how I can get back to normal. I've tried restarting Photoshop and also rebooting the computer, to no avail.  Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help.  Your solution didn't solve the problem, but taught me something very useful about toggling between masking and inverting the mask.  But I did find the answer in the "More like this" column on the right.  I had to trash my preferences, which had apparently become corrupted.  Now everything's back to normal.

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