Maya 2012 paint input mesh attract

Is just me or is this broken? I used to skin my character clothes to the skeleton and then paint the input mesh attract attribute, but now it just doesn’t work or even show up as a paint-able attribute. The paint input attract attr option is still there but that doesn’t work either. The connections from the file to the attr are there and I even tried grabbing the input attract paint texture and using the connection editor to connect it to the input mesh attract attr and it just sets the value to 1 and doesn’t blend or anything. Thoughts anyone?:?:

I haven’t used it, but when ever I find myself asking this kind of question, I usually start by searching for Maya (version) patch on Google. I came up with this for Maya 2012, so, maybe try this and see if it works more like you expect? It’s worked more than once for me in the past.