well...i don't find smoking opium very effective. i have a lump at the moment (pure - i made it myself from harvested pods that bled onto canvas bags as i was picking them, i then washed the bags and evaporated) and i get good effects from eating it, but you have to smoke a lot of it to get any effect. it's not like heroin - you have to puff on it for a long time to get a high smoking O. very inefficient.
i just don't bother any more - i like the idea of smoking opium, but i just find it too wasteful - especially when half a gelcap full taken orally will get me nicely toasted.
also, in the case of your putty there is probably all kinds of shit getting extracted from the coating of the seeds. oils and dust and god knows what other crap as well as opiate alkaloids. it's pretty crude as far as extracts go - you might have a very low opiate content in that putty.
the way i see it is that the tea works - and that's good enough for me
if you read around you find that a lot of people have experimented with making all kinds of extracts from poppy seeds - and poppy pods too. very few people seem to have any success, so it seems to me really not worth the effort. i mean, if more people reported that worthwhile extractions were possible, it might be worth a try - but the impression i get is that so many people fail because there is really very little you can do to improve on poppy seed/pod tea. they're easy to do, they have very long-lasting effects - you're probably not going to do any better without a shitload of know-how, lab equipment and/or precursor chemicals.
just stick to what works, i reckon
PS> the only piece of advice i can offer about how to improve PST? get yourself some nigella sativa. i finally got the right kind of seeds yesterday, and after reading about their ability to potentiate opiates for quite some time, i can finally verify that yes - they most definitely work. i've been using PST for ~10 years and it's been nearly that long since i ever caught a nod on PST - until last night; i was very, very toasted - on my normal maintenance dose of PST (or less). that dose doesn't normally get me high, let alone nodding.
and i didn't get the pure oil, i merely munched a couple of tablespoons of black seed. insane!