this is what happens when i disappear for 6 months.
I'm sorry, I don't recall which version of eyecandy it was. And to be honest, the PC it was on got relegated to acting as a TV interface.. playing movies, recorded tv. mediacenter basically. When I did that, i uninstalled everything that wasn't necessary for the home theatre aspect, that included my copy of CS3 along with all the filters and plugins.

I don't have eyecandy on the laptop as I have the 64bit version of cs5 installed here and ec wasn't compatible

I recall having a lot of difficulty replicating the effect through the built in filters, which is why i reverted back to the jiggle. The Distort Filters were the ones I was mostly working with. I suspect having a good displacement map might be the key, then use the displace filter.