Resizing Comment or Text Boxes in Acrobat X

Is anyone else having a problem finding corner "handles" when resizing text boxes or comment boxes in Acrobat X?
Whenever I need to resize a text or comment box I have to spend quite a bit of time hunting for just the right place to get the cursor to change into the resizing handle, and it's typically some distance away from the position of the actual corner (or side) of the box.
Is it everyone else, just Mac Acrobat X users, or just me?

In acrobat X when you use text box, you simply get the typewriter function, rathe rthan a text box.
To actually get the text box, you have to actually escape the etxtbox function then go to the select option and then (with great difficuly try to resize or move it). The problem is that some bright spark thought that combiining the typewriter function and the text box function would be a great idea. It is not.

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