Sizing Issues with Illustrator CS4

When I drag the ellipse/rectangle tool in Illustrator CS4 on Windows XP, instead of just resizing the object when I drag, it creates multiple ellipses/rectangles until I have reached the size I want. How do I get this to stop so that there is only 1 object?

Is your Tilde key stuck?
JET

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