Selection tool not lining up with cursor

Hi Forum
On numerous occassions, when using cs4 and the selection tools, lasso and magic wand, amongst others, the selection point, is out of allignment with the cursor. What is wrong, and how do i sort the problem out?
Thanx for your help.

Thanks for the suggestions!
I'm using 11.0.1, though... I try to make sure everything's up-to-date, but I just checked to be sure that was the version I was using, and it is. I'll try the F key solution next time it comes up but I'm skeptical, just because I often cycle through those different modes anyway, and as far as I've noticed it hasn't done anything to fix that problem.
I can't imagine it's graphics-card related, as I'm getting this on two entirely different computers, operating systems, graphics cards.
I'm just surprised that I'm getting this on two computers and apparently nobody else is experiencing it at all.

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