Suggestion: needs to be warned that Selection "marching ants" is hidden

Every time Adobe anounces a new Photoshop version, I make the same suggestion, to no avail. Perhaps by CS207 they will have heeded my advice!
When I work on a selection, especially an elaborate one, I usually hide it with the cmd+H keyboard shortcut combination, and almost always forget I have the selection active and go crazy till I realize that.
So what about you guys, software programers and designers at PS coming out with a visual, discreet decoy to let us users know that the selection is hidden? The user may activate this possibility or not, according to his or her preferences. For example, the menu bar may change colour to red or whatever when the selection is hidden.....
Just a suggestion.

I don't believe there's a setting that affects that directly. I do know the length of each ant varies depending on whether you have the Use OpenGL Drawing setting one way or the other. Also, while you're selecting something the ants will have a slightly different appearance than after the selection is made.
Is it possible one of you has a display monitor with a lower pixel density than the other?
Can you post an image of what you see? Here, for example, is what I see in Ps CS5 while making a rectangular selection, and then when I let up the mouse:
-Noel

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