How to put gaussian blur in background of portrait in PSE 8

I have just spent four hours trying to blur the background of a portrait. Should be a simple task but something goes wrong. I make a duplicate layer, but when I try to gaussian blur the layer, it just goes to checkerboard. And the preview screen for gaussian blur goes black. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a glitch with the program?

Hi,
Are you creating two different layers of main object and background... Also make sure that appropriate transparency is porvided in each layer...

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