Stoke on a shape is jagged CS5

I create a lot of 'cartoon type" images in photoshop using Stroke. After upgrading to from CS2 to CS5 I noticed that when I use stroke to outline my images, the stroke is jagged. This was not an issue in CS2. I have pasted an image below with just a simple shape. The shape is smooth, the stroke is jagged.
This below image is a bit small but you can see the difference in Stroke, the shoe from CS2 is smooth, the mountain from CS5 is jagged.

I don't mean to be argumentative, but the Stroke layer style hasn't changed in (low) quality from what I can see since time began. It's something Adobe really ought to fix.
Show the same part of the same image with both applications and you'll see there's no perceptible difference between the versions (I just did that to be sure).
One workaround trick is that you can use an outer glow to help the edge smoothness. See also: http://forums.adobe.com/message/4564174#4564174
-Noel

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