Capturing a photo from a video

I am running Adobe Photoshop Element V6.0 on Windows XP.
I have read the Photoshop help on how to capture a photo from a video, but have not successfully done it.
I click on File > Import > Frame from video. When the video is playing, I click on the "Grab Frame" button; the "Frames Captured" button shows that I did capture the frame.
This is where I'm stuck. What is supposed to happen next or what do I do next? The "help" just just shows a big blue arrow pointing down to the bottom of the screen.

> the video blinks as if it really is capturing the frame
I've never seen a blink.
I would start by deleting the prefs: Quit the editor, then restart while holding down ctrl+alt+shift. Keep holding the keys till you see a window asking if you want to delete the settings file. You do.

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