Can't click-drag my spot healer brush... help?

Trying to use the spot healer brush, when I try to click and drag, all it does is give me one spot.  It won't drag over an area.  I have not had this problem before.  I'm running CS5 on a Toshiba laptop.  Tried to check for updates, but got "server might be down" error.  I restarted the computer several times, hoping.... no change.  Is there some "dummy key" I hit by mistake?

In upper left corner of screen click on tool icon and choose reset tool.

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