Choosing colors with eyedropper-it picks as background color

Confused!
I have read the help and viewed   a Jan Kalibi tut on using the color picker and painting. The instructions say that the eyedropper tool is supposed to choose the foreground color, but...
If I choose the Eyedropper tool  it is  choosing and setting the background color instead of the foreground unless I hold down the alt key when the eyedropper tool is selected.
When using the brush tool I am supposed to be able to hold down the I key to temp move to the Eyedropper tool and select the new foreground color and upon release the tool resets to the brush, but once again the eyedropper is setting the background color instead, and the only way  I can change colors is to use the X key to switch the backgroung to the foreground color???
The only way I can get the Eyedropper tool to pick the foreground  color is to actually select the Eyedropper and hold down the alt key or if in a brush choose the I key hold it and choose the alt key at the same time which is quite akward .
Is there something wrong here or is it me.
No matter what combination of keys I use with the HUD color picker it will only set the background color choice and I have to use the X key to switch it to the foreground.
I thought it might be a problem connected to using the Open GPU  settings but turning that off doesn't change the general problem.
Thanks in advance
David

Do this:
Click Window - Color to bring up the COLOR panel.
Note the black border around one of the two color icons at the upper left.  It's a little darker than the other one.  I'm betting you have it on the lower-right one - the Background Color.
Click the foreground color icon at the upper-left to move the black border there.  This will cause the foreground color to be sampled with the unmodified eyedropper tool from here on.
-Noel

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