Ok...I can paint with the brush tool., etc and all the painting matches the 
brush size cursor and softness/hardness, but when I use the clone tool-no 
matter the brush size it only clones as a tiny, hard-edged brush, usually 
just the size of the crosshair in the cursor circle and only with hard 
edges.
I've checked settings..all is fine.  The weird thing though...I grab the 
wired USB Logitech mouse and the clone tool works like its supposed to-brush 
size and hardness as I selected....go back to the tablet and I get the same 
tiny, hard-edged brush.
I've reset prefs, checked the brushes palette for any setting I might have 
missed, but nothin'
any ideas amongst all ya experts??
By the way...CS4 rocks!!!  Just the canvas rotate tool is enough to make it 
worth the upgrade for retouchers.
Thanks ya'all
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