Paragraph Styles - Don't Work | Buggy?

I'm on Windows 7 using PS CS6 (not extended) 64bit.
I have watched several tutorial videos on Adobe and YouTube to see how to properly make and apply paragraph and chracter styles.
I can select text and make a new paragraph style, but when I select another text layer and the text itself with the type tool and then click on that paragraph style I made in the menu, nothing. It does not apply.
If I open the style and modify it, it does change the original text layer I made the style from, but only that layer.
Am I doing something wrong or is this feature horribly buggy?
Thanks

Update...
Some text layers I can select the text and simply click on the paragraph style and it applies, however, for most layers layers I select the text and a + appears next to the paragraph style. If I click the Clear Override icon it sometimes applys the paragraph style, sometimes it does not. Sometimes I have to select the text, choose the Basic Paragraph style and then the newly created paragraph style to get it to work.
This has to be a bug. Is this only me? Any workarounds?

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