Clipping Masks for Groups in PS6

Hi,
I followed a tutorial for creating a clipping mask for a group. I made a group of several layers, place another layer on top of this group and, holding the 'alt' key clicked between them. The thumbnail of the top image showed it had now been clipped but no clipping had actually happened. I've tried this a couple of times with different images in the layers but to no avail. I'm using Creative Cloud's latest version of Photoshop.
Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter

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[svn] 3694: Fix masking for Group

Revision: 3694
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-10-16 14:23:02 -0700 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
Fix masking for Group
SDK-17365 Masking broken for Group
Moved the call to super.commitProperties to occur after we initialize our items. When we do the init, we remove all of the display objects and then reattach them. Because this was called after we added the mask, the mask was getting removed.
Bug: SDK-17365
QA: yes
Doc: No
Review: Evtim
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17365
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17365
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/mx/components/Group.as

[svn] 3697: Fix masking for Group.

Revision: 3697
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-10-16 14:39:42 -0700 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008)
Log Message:
Fix masking for Group. Forgot to checkin the base class.
SDK-17365 Masking broken for Group
Moved the call to super.commitProperties to occur after we initialize our items. When we do the init, we remove all of the display objects and then reattach them. Because this was called after we added the mask, the mask was getting removed.
Bug: SDK-17365
QA: yes
Doc: No
Review: Evtim
Ticket Links:
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17365
http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-17365
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/flex4/src/mx/components/baseClasses/GroupBase.as

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Hey all,
Been at this for quite some while now and searched the www thin for suggestion - so really hope someone can help me out here.
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http://i.imgur.com/7Cvj26D.png
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