Selection Tools (Polygonal Lasso, Pen Tool) adding extra selections

Ok, so I'm having a weird problem in Photoshop CS4 for Mac OS X on 10.6.3. When I try to make a selection and complete the selection Photoshop is just randomly adding extra selections. Here is an example:
Above, I made a pretty straight-forward selection with the Pen Tool, nothing fancy or anything.
And then, when I right-click and Make Selection I get this crazy selection above that is no where near what I had originally selected.
It does this with the Polygonal Lasso Tool as well. I've tried reseting the tools, restarting Photoshop, and restarting the whole Mac and the problem won't go away and now it's starting to drive me crazy.
Anyone have any idea on what is causing this and how to fix it? Please and thanks!

I wasn't sure how to search for the problem, and anything I did find didn't offer a solution. If you could point me to some of these posts that would be awesome.  Thanks.

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