Rotating pictures and rectangles in illustrator cs4. (WHY DO THEY LOOK WARPED/TRAPAZOID)

Can anyone help me with rotating pictures and square shapes in illustrator cs4.
When i rotate a square/rectangle or picture it seems to distort the shape and picture.  Say I rotate something 30 degrees by using the menu or free drag. the square/rectangle doesn't maintain it's 90 degree angles. You can notice it's kind of warped some.
Someone said hold down shift and I did all that does is lock the rotation to 45 degrees.....
I'm on a pc.
Thanks

Which I wonder why that is even in there?! If it will throw off things.
CRTs are glass screens coated with dots of phospor that light up when excited by an electron beam. They don't have physical "borders" for each of the "pixels" they render. So they are much more forgiving about displaying different aspect ratio images. An LCD monitor is made up of discrete cells. Set it to an aspect ratio by which the number of cells is not divisible and you get not only the ugly disproportionate scale, but also a hideous blurring effect.
It never ceases to amaze me the number of users (even mechanical engineers) who tolerate this, as if completely oblivious to it. It's also amazing to me how many people also watch movies on supposedly "high def" TVs which display Sandra Bullock's (and everyone else's) head at 1.5 times its proportional width, and never seem to notice.
I set my monitor to that native resolution and I believe that fixed things. Only thing is all my icons etc are really small.
If the size is a problem, use a setting that is the same aspect ratio as, and half the pixel count of the native resolution. In other words, tell your monitor to use four of its hardware cells to display each pixel, instead of one. But if you choose a setting that effectively tells it to use, say, 1.5 cells for each pixel, sharpnes is...well...going down the tube, because it can't actually do that.
Me, I always set my LCDs to their actual hardware resolution at their native aspect ratio.
JET

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