Color brick dropper problem

The color dropper and loupe read the colors fine but when I click the mouse the brick defaults to the red color. If I click and hold, the brick shows the correct chosen hue but release the mouse and the brick changes from the correct hue to the red. I think its a bug. I've not had this issue before. Any suggestions? I'm using the most updated Aperture, Lion.
shlle

If the User Interface is not working correctly, it often helps to remove the user preferences:
To remove the Aperture Preferences from the User Library:
Quit Aperture, if it is running.
Log off and on again, to ensure that the process is really quitting (only on MacOS X Lion).
Open the User Library (from the Finder's "Go" menu; hold down the ⌥-key, until "Library" appears in the Go-drop down menu and select it.)
In the Library folder open the "Preferences" folder and drag "com.apple.Aperture.plist" to the Desktop.
Relaunch Aperture.
Test
For me this worked, when I had the same problem.
Regards
Léonie

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