Trying to stroke a path

I'm using Photoshop CS3 extended and am trying to stoke a path with the brush tool. I'm able to stroke the path but when you look closely at the resulting stroke, it seems to have a rough edge- as if circles were laid down very close together along the path. Is there a way to get a very clean hard edged stroke so that you don't see those circles when enlarged? I've tried all of the brush settings in the brush palette and can't seem to get rid of the roughness. Am I doing something wrong?
Richard

You could just reset the Brush tool from the drop-down menu at the top right of the Brushes palette.

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