Dust & Scratches behaving oddly

I've just started using Photoshop CS5 (2007 iMac 2.8Ghz, OS 10.5.8) after using CS4 and am noticing odd performance from the venerable Noise > Dust & Scratches filter.
I set my parameters using live preview, click OK and wait: the resultant image is all but unchanged. Nothing at all like what the preview was showing me. If I zoom way in on the file I can see changes, but it's as if the settings were all too fine to have had the result being previewed.
If I go back to CS4 the behavior is normal again.
Need help: working on deadline.
Thanks!

Are you viewing at 100% (command-1)?
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When i saved the script out of ExtendScript Toolkit i named it Dust and Scatches.jsx.
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