Healing Brush / Aligned problem

Hi,
When I use the healing brush and deselect the Aligned tool, it doesn't do anything, the source still follows the curser. I have tried the remedies I found in this forum, changing format by pressing the 'F' key, restarting photoshop, and I have reinstalled CS4 but it still doesn't cure the problem.
I use a macbookpro and don't seem to have this problem in the past.
I even tried to contact Adobe via Support, but found that to be an absolute nightmare, I seem to go round and round in circles from one page to another and then find I'm back at the first page.I can't find a way to actually contact them, does anyone know the best way?
Much appreciated if anyone can help.
Regards,
John

When I use the healing brush and deselect the Aligned tool, it doesn't do anything, the source still follows the curser.
Do you mean in one uninterrupted stroke or when you release and do another stroke?

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I am running Photoshop CS5 on a Mac and I am having some trouble with the healing brush tool.
The behaviour seems to be the same whether I have 'Align' ticked or not.
I first select the area I want to sample from using alt-click. I then use the healing brush to paint over the area I want to repair. The cross-hair showing where the pixels are being sampled from moves as I move the brush around. I assumed this would only happen when 'aligned' is ticked but it happens all the time, meaning it paints unwanted pixels.
What I want to do is keep sampling from the orginal point, not for it to move as I move the brush.
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