Blend modes in "stroke"-layer styles not working ?

Hi. Anybody else got problems with the the blend modes in the "stroke" layer style, or am I doing something wrong?
right click on layer > blending options > stroke > blend mode
(position=inside)
I want to use "fill type"="gradient", but the blend modes do not even work with "fill type"=color. For both fill modes, the stroke does not let any pixels of the layer shine through, no matter what blend mode I choose.
I often use blend modes, for example "darken", etc. I know how they work, but somehow for the stroke layer style it seems not to work at all.
I know, it's pretty basic, but I have spent several hours on that and simply don't succeed. Thanks for any help.

Ed Hannigan wrote:
So it seems. But the Stroke doesn't seem to work that way.
A question for Adobe techs?
Mylenium wrote:
... (or maybe it isn't and the bug has now become commonly accepted behavior?). It is strange, I grand you that. Maybe one day it will be changed/ fixed for the better.
As there's only a single sentence refering to the stroke layer style in the CS3 manual, I'd also be thankful for an Adobe comment, clarifying whether this is a bug or not and if it will be improved.
Just to depict the current behaviour in a more graphic way:
test image: layers:
stroke settings:
expected results:
actual results:
I'd suggest to add a checkbox "knockout", which would let the user choose between the two results.

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