Shape tools giving jagged edges when curved CS4

hi everybody,
thanks in advance for whatever help you can give me on this.
I am working in CS4 under windows 7 with all the updates for the system and for CS4.
I was doing okay until recently when i started noticing that the shape tool was giving me
jagged and fuzzy edges, even whil it was still vectored. the docs i work in are 300dpi,
and as long as the shape tool does a straight edge it's seems to be fine, but when i
try to do a an egg or oval shape the jaggedness appears and i cant seem to do anything
about it.
i have uniinstalled cleared all preferences and reinstalled to the same outcome.
what should i do?
Thanks again.

i have viewed it zoomed out and in. before i had this problem if i was dealing with a vector shape i could zoom in and see clean edges. the same if i created a shape with the pen tool. right now if the shape is not straight edge, the curved edges are fuzzy no matter which way i pull it or zoom it or anything. i just dont know what to make out of it. i have reinstalled it twice after cleaning out the registry and any lingering files that i could find in my app data folder and the program folder in program files. i dont know what else to do.
i'm on windows 7 ultimate
ati hd2600 pcie
4gb of ram
150gb system drive with a 1 TB drive for storage.

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