But just tonight, reading a post on Smart Smoother HiQ 2.11, it became really apparent that I wasn't installing the new version (because new options were referenced in the post, that i didn't see in my faux updated version).
Long story short, I found out that my unzip tool (ZipGenius) was not deigning to inform me that it was unable to overlay a filter file on unzip because the file was in use ... and if VD is open, the filter files are in use!
Moral of the story: always close VD when installing filters.
Alternative Ending Moral: use an unzip tool that bothers to tell you that it wasn't able to extract a file
