Spot Correction Tool Bug

Not sure how to describe this one other than to post some pictures of things that happen when in the Spot Correction tool. Running LR3 on OS X 10.6.3. Current generation Intel iMac with 8 gigs of RAM. This is intermittant behavior. The weird squares pop up when selecting the area for the spot correct. The full-image vertical lines occur when zooming in or out, or when deselecting the tool.

Note: the vertical lines appeared briefly when switching to the Crop tool. Another possibly interesting fact is that LR is taking 3.24 gigs of RAM, which is a lot more than it ordinarily takes.

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