Gradient tool not fading transparency/opacity... help?

Hello fantastic photoshop experts,
I'm having a bizarre problem in Photoshop CS2 (sorry, no money for a newer version) with my gradient tool not rendering transparency. I've been using CS2 for a while on my mac (Powerbook G4, OSX 10.4 if that matters) and this is the first issue I've ever had with it.
Basically, I try to choose the "Foreground to Transparent" gradient, and although the settings are all set to default and all the sliders appear to be correct, the applied gradient doesn't have any transparency. Instead, it just goes Foreground to Foreground! I've tried to manually enter in opacity values, moved the sliders around, changed to different colors or different gradients that contain transparency in the hopes something would mysteriously kickstart Photoshop into correcting itself. I've restarted everything, clicked reset the presets, restore defaults, anything I can think of, and nothing works. All gradients that have some sort of transparency fail to render the transparency. Any 100% solid color renders fine.
I've searched and searched and can't seem to find the answer to this frustrating problem. If this explanation doesn't make sense, I hope the attached screenshot makes things clearer. I would really appreciate some insight into this! Thank you in advance.

Well, shucks, Buko, you make it so easy!
Yes, that finally fixed it. I thought I had trashed my prefs, but it turns out I trashed the wrong one. Thank you very much!

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