What is wrong with my Photoshop (CS5)?

Photoshop did this to me twice this week... during some actions like eyedrop-picking-up-color-then-apply-it-to-a-keyline... the "canvas" rotated itself (both time to some what a cw13°). There is no way to back up... nothing is recorded in "history".
When it happened the 2nd time, today, I called the support center. After talking to 2 guys I got the third guy who guided me to reset all tools etc. but was not able to bring my screen back to normal.
The guy insisted that this not a bug because he hasn't heard anybody else complained about anything like this. He simply couldn't give me a reason for why and tried to tell me that it could be anything, tool set up changed, preference changed. I only changed the units set from inch to pixel, no special tool setup at all. It felt like 10 some years ago when the office "IT" guy said that the reason that designers' computers freeze so often was because we typed too fast.
Anyway, I found myself back to the old days... saving my file every other min.
Anybody has any idea what this is about?

Thanks for this post.  I kept on seeing that little red "compas" icon flashing on my screen with my new mac and CS5 photoshop.  I thought I was seeing things, then a wayward finger movement tilted my canvas.  "Can a canvas rotate?!?" I was completely confused and this hint here proved to my kids I am not insane nor have I broken the new mac...
Very helpful post, much appreciated.

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