Selection tool handles - zoom dependant?

This is a weird one to explain, using Illustrator CS4 - look at the crude images below:
The scale handles extend past the object - scale upwards and the object moves relative to the base handle NOT the objects base
ZOOM IN and the handles are flush with object - drag upwards and scale sticks to bottom edge - as expected
I dont want to zoom in every time I want to scale a small element - I have switched every preference I can on & off in an effort to remove this behavior but it still persists. This becomes extremely annoying when shifting a lot of elements that butt up against each other.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated!

Makes sense to me.
Doesn't to me. This aspect of Illustrator's hideous interface design has always annoyed me. It looks like the kind of thing typical of crude drawing modules in every cheezy "office" or "works" program. For example, makes no intuitive sense at all for the so-called "bounding box" of a straight horizontal path to be taller than the path (the height of which should be zero, unless Use Preview Bounds is on).
JET

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