Adjustment Brush Issue

I've been using the adjustment brush for quite sometime, via LR2 and now LR3. Currently I am using LR3 and it just stopped working all together. It won't let me update the previous brush strokes made, nor will it make any changes through new brush strokes. It will place a new pin, but nothing will take effect or become highlighted when I have the arrow over it, like it does the older pins I had set that work. I've tried turning certain settings off and on again, as many as I can think of and nothing is working.
When it began doing this today though, I did try something that I'm not quite familiar with. I was trying out the color settings under the brush adjustments and when I tried to go back to using exposure, saturation, etc. it hasn't worked since. Anyone have an idea as to what I can do to get it working again?

Never mind .
Hal

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EDIT and delete my post to replace it with this:
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