Selection now crops to canvas size...HELP!

I *finally* upgraded from v7 to CS4, and so far I am not very happy...just took me half an hour to figure out that you have to hold ALT down first and THEN drag your layer effect to another layer without completely losing the effect from the original layer...the tabbed interface makes no sense to me whatsoever (can't believe what I have to go thru just to drag a layer from one file to another)...but anyways, here's my current and biggest problem:
When I make a marquee selection, say a circle, and I want the circle to go outside the canvas area, when I let go of the mouse the selection gets cropped to the edges of the canvas. Here's some pics illustrating how I did this in v7:
And here's the problem in CS4:
Is there a way to keep the off-canvas selection, or is this something I have to live with? If the latter then I am very sad, will have to go back to v7 I guess...
I posted this on a few other forums and got some rather condescending responses, so if you can help me without calling me stupid I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
di

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