Creating Smart Albums problem

I'm on pg 132 of Aperture 2 Pro training book. I'm stuck at #4 which states "The images matching the search criteria appear in the Browser." They don't for me. The HUD is set up for, Rating (checked) "is greater than or equal to" is selected and set at 5 star as per instructed. After completing and closing HUD as instructed, why are all the images in lesson 2 still showing in the browser instead of just the 5 star for this Smart Album? Maybe I'm missing the point but according to what they state as I repeated above this seems incorrect.
So far I'm not too impressed with the way this book is written. On the same page of Creating Smart Albums, #2 states to rename the untitled Smart Album and then press Return. According to the book this would apply the name to the Query HUD, which it didn't. It wasn't until I finally pressed the Magnifying Icon that I could get it to register onto the Query HUD. They left that bit of info out. One of several over looked steps.
Your help will be appreciated.
John

Hi Tony,
The steps you suggested were previously done and yes the smart album was selected. Nothing would work until I clicked on an (x) in the right side of the "Full text search or Limited text search" field just to the right of "match." Once I hit that (x), it disappeared and every thing began to work as expected. Why the (x) was there while nothing appeared in that field is puzzling but I will probably figure it out as I proceed. I did click in that field once in my attempts. That must have froze the operation some how.
Many thanks for your contribution. I'm sure you will be seeing more of me here as I plow through this not so well edited tutorial.

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