PSE9 Can't get the blur tool to work..

I have a problem with PS elements 9.
Basically .. In my last package I liked to use the manual blur tool, I see elements has one (a teardrop shaped tool from the bottom left)
I have selected that blur tool and selected blur at 100% and it pretty much does nothing.
The other two tools, sharpen and smudge work as expected I just can't get the blur tool to work.
I want to be able to drag the blur tool across a part of the image and blur it.. but it does nothing!
If I look at the pixel level then at 100% blur the tool is very slightly blurring the image but only very slightly, I want to be able to paint blurryness across parts of an image and it is not letting me.
Am I doing something wrong?

Oh, that is a pain.
I am used to using a manual blur tool and I like it.
I can see that the select then filter blur does blur a lot more (as much as I would like) but I don't like the way the selection tool works it always seems to end up with blurs that look unnatural at the edges...
I suppose I will have to find a way of using it or buy another package.
Very dissapointed.

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