"Solarize" not working - simple mistake? (I'm using CS3, btw)

I'm following the tutorial "Light Burst" with PhotoShop Essentials (http://www.photoshopessentials.com/) and am on page 3, Step 8 where I am supposed to go to Filters> Stylize>Solarize and I can't get it to work.  I have started over at least a dozen times, I have checked everything I can think of to check that I might have missed, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong.  I'm new at this, so my guess is that it's a simple mistake but if someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it. There following are 2 other discrepancies b/w MY work and PS Essentials guidelines BEFORE step 8 that may be linked to why Step 8 isn't working for me. 
      Step 3 - I am supposed to add my text and increase the font size by using the Transform tool and Shift Option to resize it.  I have tried that but the font doesn't change sizes. It changes it's location on the page.  So what I did was change the font size manually by highlighting it and increasing the numbers in the font size box on the top of the page (like it was a Windows document in Microsoft Word).  [Any ideas how to do this correctly?]  
       Step 6, it says to go to Edit>Fill and then "when the dialog box appears, set the Contents to White and change the Blending Mode to Multiply... if you look at your text layer's thumbnail in the Layers palette, you'll see that all of the empty space around the text has now been filled with white, while leaving the text black thanks to that "Multiply" mode."  That is the 2nd difference - no white around the text in my text layer's thumbnail in the Layers palette.
       Step 8 is what has me pulling my hair out.  It sounds simple.  Filters>Stylize>Solarize ... but nothing happens.  Please help. 

I gave up yesterday, frustrated, after working all day on it.  But after you replied, I decided to fresh again today.  I started a new document, and carefully read through each step and ... (drum roll, please), I DID it! I realized today that I was deleting the Layer thumbnail that pops up after Step 5 because I wasn't working in that one and it automatically switched me into it but it wasn't the layer I was supposed to be in.  So to keep from accidentally working in it, I would delete it.  I figured I didn't need it yet, so no reason to keep it. I left it alone this time ... and I was able to get the black screen around my text when working in the other layer.   
It feels like the world's stupidest mistake ... but I am so GLAD to have finally figured out the problem! 
THANK-YOU for taking the time to look into this question for me. 

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