CS4 - Color Sampler readout with Adjustment Layer selected?

I'm not sure if this is a setting, or a bug, or the way adobe intended it, but perhaps some of you may know.
In Photoshop CS4, I have a few color samplers around the stage. I notice that the color readouts require that I make some adjustments using a curves layer. I add the curves adjustment layer and start to make adjustments. The only problem is that while I have an adjustment layer selected (so I can make changes to it) my color sampler readouts in the info panel display blank.
In previous version of photoshop this was not the case as you could open the adjustment dialog without actually having that adjustment layer selected. I love the new adjustment layer panel, but its really frustrating having to make some changes to an adjustment layer and then select another layer to see what those changes did to the color samplers, and back and forth, and back and forth.
Does anyone have a fix for this? Is it a bug? Is there a reason that CS4 functions this way?

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I am sure there is a simple solution to this but here goes (BTW I am using a Windows 7 machine and a variety of versions of PS).
Somebody showed me an interesting way to address color cast in photos and he showed my using CS2. I tried it at home on Photoshop CC, CS6 and CS5.5 with no joy. I then tried it on CS2 (at home - so the same machine with the other versions on) and it worked as I was shown.
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Rkelly - Thanks for that - it worked.
Not wishing to sound un-gracious. But how come I dont need to use Ctrl if I apply the effect via the "image/adjustment/photofilter" route but do need Ctrl if I try to apply the same thing via an adjustment layer?
It isnt a huge problem now that you have supplied me with the solution.... I just want to understand as much as I can.
Cheers
John

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