Smudge Tool Problems, Creating weird colors.

Hello!
I have been strugling with this problem for hours now. The smudge tool creates some weird gray/random color(s) when im trying to smudge instead of fading. I have reseted all tools and i have reinstalled PS C4 and nothing helps.
Picture of the problem.
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h11/kas006/Problem.png
No matter what strenght or size i use it ends up the same.

that should go away after a few more strokes or you could just use Liquify as that produces way better results than the Smudge tool

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