New User Help Request

Using the trial version of Photoshop CS6 on Win 7 to follow some basic (very basic) tutorials on creating some background images for a Flash based game.

Anyhow long story short the stage of the tutorial is asking me to make some selections from the upper 'Options' bar which I believe should look like this with a bounding box 'check box' etc:

but mine looks like this->

Where am I going wrong?

John.