Selection Tool Not Selecting Properly? PE 2.0

Hi, interesting looking forum you have here! Discovered it today, and then this evening, I find a problem. Typical. At least I knew where to come.
Anyway, working on a project tonight, using the selection tool with a large square brush, I selected a square in a block of black, and erased it using the normal eraser with a round brush set to 'pencil'. I saw it gave a clean edge on the top and left edges, but the right and bottom edges faded out outside the selection. Repeated erasings of the area did give it a nice neat line ... but outside the selection, so it wasn't square. I'm sure I must have some setting ticked and I just don't know what it is.
Piccie below, because I don't think I explained that well. Any help you could give me would be much appreciated!

Since it is not known what caused this unusual behavior so resetting the behavior of tools would be good idea to use the tool at its original functionality. For this click the small triangle at the upper left corner above tools and click Reset Tools and try using the selection now. If issue still persists please reset the settings from Edit->Preferences. Let me know if you have any comments.
-Garry

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