Pressure sensitivity fail in Photoshop, perfect in Illustrator

So what's up with this? I get the little orange triangle of shame telling me that I'm a dummy and should be using a pressure sensitive tablet in Photoshop, but it works perfectly in Illustrator with no problems at all. Both are CS4. Tablet is Wacom and even the cheap non-adobe programs can sense the pressure. I just downloaded and reinstalled the driver and restarted the computer. No change at all.

I finally FINALLY fixed this. Besides downloading and installing the latest driver, I found some other advice that said to use the pen while clicking the yellow triangle. I tapped the pen up and down on the tablet while clicking the mouse on the triangle. Victory.

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