CS4 Liquify Issue

I flattened what I thought was a final image. It turns out the person in the image isn't happy about the weight he has put on. When taking that image and liquifying it all I see is a grey screen. Why? Is it because it was flattened. I use to do this all the time on CS3 Mac but I'm working on a PC in CS4 and can't figure out why I can't see the image. Help!

Check the mesh display in relation to your zoom level and things like mask color, show background etc.
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I have recently upgraded from CS3 to CS4 and now find that the liquify tool does not work in "real time". On CS3 I had no problems. Now when I try to perform an action, I click the mouse and get the beachball for a few seconds then the results. As you can imagine, this is extremely frustrating. I am running it on my 24" iMac, 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo with the maximum 3 GB ram.
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*My* first post was #11 ;)
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Message was edited by: It doesn't work!

Well, I fixed it, I think… I googled "Printing issues in Mac OS," which led me to install Gutenprint 5.2.5 — whatever the heck that is — and suddenly duplex printing worked in both landscape and portrait on letter-sized paper.
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I thin i #4 you mean you reset the preferences but what you have to do is trash the Adobe Photoshop CS 4 Settings folder.
so First quit Photoshop then go to Users/Username/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CS 4 Settings folder and trash it.
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