Wacom tablet staying in one area on CS5

Hello.
I am having a really annoying problem with Photoshop CS5. Whenever I use my tablet pen on photoshop, the cursor stays in the upper left corner of the monitor, instead of the entire screen. Even though this happens, when I am not on Photoshop, say I'm in a different window, the cursor acts normally. It goes all around the monitor as its suppposed to.For further info, I am using Photoshop CS5 and all of the Design suite. The tablet I am using is Wacom Bamboo Fun. Please if anyone knows a solution, it would be great. Also this problem exists on my older photoshop versions as well.
Thanks.

The first two things that I would check are:
The Wacom driver that you are using. Wacom is usually very good at getting newer and better drivers out. If an update is available for your tablet/OS, I would definitely install that.
Next, check all the settings in you Wacom console, in Control Panel.
I'd post a screen-cap of mine, but my Wacoms and their drivers, are a little long in the tooth, and are probably not much help to you, as you likely have a newer tablet, and driver.
As a side note: I have been having similar issues (but in other programs) with my mouse on my laptop - the cursor will hang and only move up-down, or maybe at a very acute angle. I have updated my driver, and even the MS 5-button Wheel-mouse. That seems to have fixed things for a bit, but they have come back a few times, and almost always after an OS update/hot-fix. I suspect that some of those updates/hot-fixes are breaking the mouse driver. In my particular case, this is on XP-Pro SP3. This only started happening over the last few months. Still, it points out to me how fragile pointer device drivers can be.
Good luck,
Hunt

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