Healing Brush not working in CS4.

Hello,
The Healing Brush in my copy of CS4 has always been a problematic tool.
Some times it worked and sometimes it didn't.
Now it never works.
Can anyone please help me to get it working properly?
Thanks for your consideration,
cobaltgreen

Maybe you misunderstand the function of the healing brush. There are two healing brushes. One is an automatic brush that you can click on a spot, and it will attempt to automatically heal that spot. The other is like the clone stamp, except it attempts to repair the copied pixels to match the destination. Do neither functions work for you?

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