Stuck with hand tool in Photoshop CS4 under Lion

Title says it all really. I can’t select any other tool and therefore can't do anything with a PSD file except LOOK at it! I've seen mention of this problem in another thread, but that was evidently under Windows. No mention of it in Adobe's list of problems with their products under Lion. PS CS4, OS X 10.7.1 on 27" iMac (April 2010). Fortunately I only use PS occasionally nowadays, but this also means I can't justify the expense of upgrading to CS5.

Thanks, but that's almost entirely about the Windows version, and I've already deleted my settings by launching PS holding cmd-alt-shift down. Made no difference.

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