Content Aware tool causing corrupt images

As the title states, I went to use my content aware tool to expand a rather simple background texture and it went completely haywire!
This is what it gave me! I tried to undo it, thinking it had grabbed from all the layers, but going back in the history didn't fix it. So I closed the file (I didn't save it like this) and reopened it only to see the same thing! This was a project for a client so I was more than a little angry that some how the tool had corrupted my entire file and then saved it without me knowing! So I took this screenshot, only to try and open up a New Document and have it too look corrupted. At this point, I closed photoshop completely, making sure any services that started up with it was shut down as well and restarted it and opened my TIF file to find it perfectly fine.
Again I tried to use the Content Aware tool (with all my layers shut off, minus the one I needed extended) to only have it do the same thing to all the layers again!
Needless to say I closed photoshop, made sure my video drivers were up to date and reopened, pasted my screenshot and came here. So the obvious thing is, is that my Content Aware tool is causing a problem, but what in the world is going on? How do I fix this?

Yes; it will always depend on the individual image.
Don't expect miracles. The feature is OK but—despite all the hype—is not ground-breaking, in my opinion. It has been available for quite some time in Alien Skin's Image Doctor set of plug-ins and in the GIMP (this latter one free) in ways I find a bit better.
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