Spry Tooltip is missing on Spry menu in CS3?

I cannot find the Spry Tooltip on my Spry Menu in DW CS3? I have run the Site/Spry Updater but Tooltip is not listed?
How do I add/update my DW Spry menu to include all available Spry Widgets, tools, etc?
Thanks,
jlig

Arnout, Thanks for the reply..
However, I have read thru that document and still not sure how to:
- Apply the Spry Tooltip widget to a small Image on my page
I have already copied the two SpryTooltip.css & SpryTooltip.js files into my Spry folder & uploaded to the site
Just not sure how to apply them to the Image?

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                // http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/articles/rating_overview/index.html
                var rating1 = new Spry.Widget.Rating("{pv1::Id_blurt}", {ratingValueElement:'ratingValue', afterRating:'serverValue', saveUrl: 'save.php?id={pv1::Id_blurt}&val=@@ratingValue@@'});
            </script>
                 <br/>
               </div>
              </div>
    Ok, it registers the right vote in the database with the right blurt id each time. But I am having two problems so far:
    One, even though {pv1::average_r} returns the correct average through xml, it doesn't show the initial rating value for each of the repeating blurts. It seems to show the first one correct, and then just repeat that same value to the other ones that follow. I just dont understand since it can get the correct server value right after you vote (afterRating:'serverValue), that I can't manipulate spryrating.js in some way that I could just replace 'ratingValue' in ratingValueElement:'ratingValue' with something to give me the initial server value.
    Two: Is even more mysterious to me, if you play around with voting on the site, sometimes you are unable to vote on different blurts. Its weird. It seems like that the javascript is completely off just on those blurts. And sometimes its a whole row, sometimes none. But so far its never a problem on the first tabbed panel (Recent), only on the other three. As far as I know, the coding is exactly the same in each tab's repeating region except for the different xml input.
    And, now on the live server, sometimes the pics of tears used to voting dont show up until you click.
    Any help on those three questions (how to query the fourth panel, how to show the initial server value, and the glitches with voting) would be greatly appreciated!! I looked pretty hard on adobe forums and other sites, and didnt see much on how to really use the spry rating widget with php and xml.
    Thanks!!

    Update:
    Ok, the first query on the Recent tab doesnt work for me because it wont show unless its already voted, and since these are supposed to be new blurts, that kind of breaks the whole site:
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    So I replaced it with what I originally had.
    "SELECT Blurt.Id_blurt, Blurt.Name, Blurt.Location, Blurt.Blurt,Blurt.`Date`,DATE_FORMAT(Blurt.`Date`, '%l:%i %p on %M %D, %Y') as Date FROM Blurt ORDER BY Blurt.`Date` DESC";
    But this doesn't provide me with the initial average rating:(

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