Trouble selecting

I'm having trouble selecting an image on Photoshop 7. I'm trying to crop an image but when I use the marquee tool, it keeps jumping to different spots when I drag the corner. I recently had troubles with my computer mouse in that it was double-clicking faster than humanly possible and wouldn't allow me to highlight anything. I believe I have fixed the mouse problems because everything that I was having difficulty with before has been fixed - just not in Photoshop. I was wondering if it could be a problem with the program.
I hadn't encountered this problem before anything was wrong with my mouse.
As for the settings I'm using, feather is set to 0px and the style is normal.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think J Maloney meant reset the Marquee tool.
Have you tried cropping with the Crop tool instead?
Edit: Oh!  Did the type tool fix it? 

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