Cursor Display - Help

[Computer Hobbyist]

This has happened to me several times and Im not sure what causes it... but... whats happening is:
Normally I have my brushes set to "brush size" and "standard"
Just now I was working on an image, had my lasso tool and was selecting an area, my cursor was that of the lasso. Then for no reason at all (atleast to me) the lasso is gone and I now have a precise cursor for my lasso tool. I checked my preferrences, they are still set to standard and brush size.
Ive tried to correct thsi problem a few ways. I have tried to set my prefs to both say precise, ok the prefs, then reopen the prefs and set them back to standard to and brush size and ok the prefs again. No deal. Ive tried restarting PS. No deal. Ive tried emptying my temp folder (that PS uses for scratch) still no deal. Ive tried purging (Edit>Purge>All) no deal. The only thing I havent tried was a complete reboot. The only reason I havent done that is because I just dont want to lol Im going to reboot anyway once I am done here but Id really like to know what causes this problem. Im using PS 7 and its happened to me several times in the past. Ive always solved it by rebooting but thats a royal pain in the arse and I dont feel I should have to do that. Its also happened to be in PS 6 in the past as well. Anyone had this happen? Anyone know how to solve this, short of rebooting or dumping preferrences? Anyone know WHY this happens?

Thanks Jared aka TCH

[barry gray]

Your "caps lock" is on-turn off.

[Computer Hobbyist]

oh! I had no idea cap lock did that! :)thank you lol

[YrbkMgr]

I can't tell you how many times I had exited photoshop and re-started a session because of that before I found out.