Frequency Separation Healing Brush Issues

Hey!

Having some really weird issues with healing brush with frequency separation.  Here's what the healing brush looks like in the texture:

So I'm using the same action that I made and have been using for a few months now.  But, now when I go to use the healing brush and set a source location, the brush comes up grey like this and doesn't seem to work correctly.  For reference, the brush used to come up and show the texture that was going to be used, not the subtract layer grey thing.

Also one thing I've noticed is that I now have to seem to work in both layers to fix color, whereas before (like, a few days or a week ago maybe?) it was very clear; color fixes in color layer, texture fixes in texture layer.  Now it's almost like they're blended. 

I have double checked my action, and also done frequency separation manually with layers and I get the same problems with my healing brush.  I've reset the brush tools, I've reset preferences, I've done the ctrl + alt + shift reset when booting Photoshop up, and have tried the last two previous versions and this is still happening.

I'm pretty confused at this point.  Can anyone help?

P.S.  I don't know if it makes a difference or not, but I just recently started using a Wacom Intuos Pro Small.  Are there any sort of windows ink settings that might influence this happening?

Thanks for the help,

Joseph