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Update: I seem to have found a decent work-around for the inconsistency of the airbrush performance in CS4-5...

I've switched to Corel Painter 11. The airbrush spray in monochrome situations is silky smooth and you can get good photo subtle renditions of texture and tone with minimal futzing about with the brush settings.

That's the positive news. The less positive news is that when it comes to superimposing color for subtle glazes and velaturas, one senses that the color just sits on top of the previous color without altering the hue of the color underneath it....it just sits on top. This means that I will probably have to execute the underdrawing in Painter and color it in Photoshop CS4 because the color blending that occurs when you airbrush colors on top of colors  in CS4 is just superb. Lets say you have a skin tone and you airbrush some black to modulate that skin tone...The black has a subtle impact on the red, blending it gradually through all of the tones visible in the color picker so from red to darker red to burgundy to brown then to black. Rather than covering the red in black.