Selection tool problem in Photoshop Elements 8

I am using Photoshop Elements 8 and I am having an awful lot of trouble with the selection tool. I make a selection and then when I go to colour it in, it goes outside the lines by a few pixels, giving the selection a really fuzzy edge, almost like a glowing effect. I can even do this, colour it in and then go over it again with the eraser tool in the same selection and end up with just a fuzzy ring around the outside of the selection. I can't for the life of me figure out why this has been happening, and it is really, really frustrating. I have also had problems with going into an old file I had made ages ago and wanted to work on again, I made a new layer from a selection from the background and it came out all weird and transparent in bits and I couldn't fix it, and again, it had fuzzy edges. I don't know what is wrong, I haven't been using feathering on my edges or anything like that so why is it doing this? Should I just give in and buy the newest version of photoshop elements? Would that even work?

On the Selection brush tool's options bar, set hardness to 100%.
When you make the selection, make certain that the border of the selection outline is precise and does not extend beyond the object to be selected. If it does, subtract from the selection. If the selection falls short, add to it. This is critical and operator dependent.
Once you have created the selection to the best of your ability, place it on a new layer (CTRL+J)
In the layers palette, press CTRL on the keyboard and left click on the layer thumbnail of the selection created in step #3 to make the selection active (should see "marching ants" again) Click on the thumbnail, not the name.
Go to Select>refine edge and use the sliders to fine-tune the selection
Go to Edit>fill selection with foreground color
Let us know if this works for you.

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