With the sparklite and any kind of spark based fire starter, you need to remember five things about your tinder:

1. It must be dry.
2. Smaller is better, and fuzzy means it is really small.
3. No, drier than that.
4. Accelerants are a good thing, like the slightest bit of vaseline
5. No, no, drier still.

It needs to be as dry as you can get it, and the individual bits need to be as small and air surrounded as you can manage. Try this- take a BIG cotten ball, made from real cotton, and add about a pinhead-sized volume of petrolum jelly. Rub it in completely. Give that a whirl, I think you'll find you like how it works.

When you finally use a tinderquick, you need to open it up a lot. Practically pull it to shreads in the middle, so it is very, very fluffy.