Photoshop CS freeform pen tool trouble

Recently my photoshop will not let me do a stroke path with my freeform pen tool.
I create a path, and when I right click, and select "stroke path" and click "Ok" (With the brush tool selected) it only shows the anchor points, and does not create a path.
I have my brush spacing to 1% (which everwhere I check, it says that is correct) and I have my "Paths" icon in the option bar selected.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled photoshop CS many times, but it does not seem to resolve. 
I really need this fixed! Please help! 
Thank you.

Spacing will only have unchecked if a particular brush was saved with that option unchecked.  That means how the brush came, or if you have unchecked it and saved the brush set.
For instance if you make changes to Brush Presets, and try to load a different brush set choosing to just OK rather than Append, you will be asked if you want to save the changes.  If you have clicked on Yes, then you have overwritten the original settings. 
However, you said you have reinstalled PS, which I would have thought would restore the defaults.
Windows 7 keeps brushes in:
C:\User\your user name\App data\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe CC\Presets\brushes
Note: you need Show hidden files and folders, checked in Folder options. 
In that folder Standard.abr is 740KB and it's Date Modified is the same as when I installed Photoshop.  If you think your Standard set is messed up, email me at trevor.dennis at xtra.co.nz and I'll email my Standard set to you.
Note 2: I have just over 90 brush sets in the above folder, and that's after culling out the ones I think I'll never use.  What I have done by way of an ad hoc preset management, is to rename the sets so they group by type alphabetically, but leaving enough of the original name to identify the source.

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