Preserved Topic: HandsOn glass tutorial...

I've tried the glass tutorial on handson, but after creating a few of those spheres I thought I'd gave a try to something else...
And what else than that glass writting, spelling "glass", up in the right corner. So, instead of starting with a disc I tried to start with a grey word. The result was not so glassy
Any ideas on how to produce glass writting?
Thanks

http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/displace1.html

good link.

this one should come in handy too: http://www.innerworld.com/F1_error/CPM/

And, although this tute is not actually about glass, many of the concepts are good ones and can be applied to help make the appearance of glass as well: http://www.gurusnetwork.com/tutorials/photoshop/droplets.html