PS CS5 Shape Tool Hexagon Corner Smoothing

For the love of it I simply cannot figure out how to change the "corner radius" for the shape tool's polygon tool. I set it to 6 sides and with SMOOTHED CORNERS off, it creates a hexagon as expected.
But if I turn on SMOOTHED CORNERS, it almost makes a circle, the corners are excessively rounded. I see no option to control how smoothed/rounded these corners are.
When I lower this to 3 sides, I can see PS is heavily rounding the corners. At this point, I simply don't think there's an option to do what I want here. I know in AI, you can hold the arrow keys to add/remove corners and increase/decrease rounded corners, but PS CS5 doesn't seem to support that.

You might try this corner editor script
(works really well)
http://photoshopscripts.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/corner-editor-photoshop-script/

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A list of all devices and iOS versions that this bug does NOT reproduce on.
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