Spaces + Rectangular Marquee = annoying error?

Hello,
since about 4 weeks I'm proud owner of Adobe CS3 Design Premium. I use it on Leopard 10.5.2 with spaces and expose activated. And here comes the problem:
If I edit a image in Photoshop, the Rectangular Marquee tool sometimes changes fast between the cursor used in OS-X and the Rectangular Marquee tool cursor. Its impossible to choose anything when this bug occures. I have to restart Photoshop to get this away, just closing the image or selecting another tool does not work. This issue starts randomly after using spaces.
Do you know anything to do against this except stop using spaces? And where can I report bugs on adobes site?
Thanks for helping

This button enabled? See the screenshot.
:-) miss_marple

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