Why am I having a major cursor confusion problem!?

Okay here it goes: ( I am currently running CS5 Photoshop for Mac) I have a document open that I want to edit... I go to select the brush tool. I select it then proceed to the top left screen to adjust the size of the brush and the type....the thing is the icon that is scrolling over the different sizes and brushes are "scissors"---not an arrow or a hand...only scissors. I have to select the brush size with a pair of scissors... So I select the size then get out of that...I then proceed to go to paint on the picture I want to edit...instead of there being a brush (or a circle), there is an eyedropper that I am painting with!!! What in the world!? I just noticed the problem and don't know why my icons are confused. I deleted photoshop and re installed it, but it's still doing the same thing. I made sure that the brush was selected and not the eyedropper about twenty times to see if it was user error...it wasn't. Now this isn't the only issue...just the first one I noticed. After playing around with Photoshop and running across the first problem, I decided that maybe the program needed an update. I went ahead and updated the program and now discovered some newer issues: Same document is up that I want to edit. I go to use the burn tool, click on it--scroll over to the picture and I see the dodge tool. I click on the tool bar to change to the dodge tool--scroll over to the picture again and see the burn tool! It's as if all my tool icons are jumbled and misplaced! I am having issues with about 90% of my tools I don't know what's going on. I was shown a link on Adobe's website that said if I update my Mac software to 10.6.6 I may experience problems with photoshop and other programs.. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/881/cpsid_88159.html I am just really at a dead end with trying to fix this..because I don't know what to do! I am stumped. Please help! I'm desperate for an answer!! The CPU settings thing...I tried it with it enabled and disabled...still the same issues!

I deleted photoshop and re installed it,
Deleting Photoshop is not advisable, you should have un-installed it.
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As with all unexplainable Photoshop-problems you might try trashing the prefs (after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences you’ve changed) by pressing command-alt-shift on starting the program or starting from a new user-account.
System Maintenance (repairing permissions, purging PRAM, running cron-scripts, cleaning caches, etc.) might also be beneficial, Onyx has been recommended for such tasks.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html
Weeding out bad fonts never seems to be a bad idea, either. (Validate your fonts in Font Book and remove the bad ones.)
If 3rd party plug-ins are installed try disabling them to verify if one of those may be responsible for the problem.

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