PaintshopPhoto Pro X3 ( also have PSP X2 and X2 Ultimate)

I have been using the skin softening feature in PSP X versions.

Adjust-> Skin Softening.
After some use I found that the automatic selection and softening did not work so well on darker or tanned skins as well as paler skins.
A successful series of steps and script I used was:

1 Adjust-> Brightness and Contrast-> Levels and move the grey middle slider to about 84
2 Adjust-> Skin Softening
3. Adjust-> Brightness and Contrast-> Levels and move the grey middle slider to about 144 to restore image back to normal.

This worked quite well in scripts in PSP 8, PSP X2 and PSP X2 Ultimate but in PSP X 3 i finish up with a double darkening of the image . ie when step 1 is followed instead of using a grey setting of 84 as recorded it uses the default value which can be 144 as in the last operation.

I have written to Corel to complain about this problem and am awaiting their response.
However would like to know if others have a similar problem using this type of script. Do other XP 3 users experience this.
Can I get confirmation from users of other versions of PSP that the script works properly.

It would seeem that in the earlier versions the script recorded the value of the slider whereas in X3 it does not record the value and uses the current value from whatever was your last operation.