Cs5.5 eye dropper and boris chroma key issue

Hi all, I know we have issues with the eye dropper in cs5.5 ultra key and osx lion. Hopefully adobe with correct this ASAP. In the meantime does anyone know if the eye dropper works with third party plugins such as boris chroma key?
This may be an expensive fix if it will work but me being colour blind is causing a few problems using the swatch tool. If anyone can shed some light on this that would be great, also any views on the boris keyer would be helpful.
Any other suggestions for a good keying plugin would also be useful.
Regards
Dave.

Hi Todd as you can see from above I found that out the hard way,however I am experimenting just in case I fall across something that helps. In my case for now I am doing all the keying in AE then replacing the clips in PP with the rgb and alpha from rendered vid  out of AE. Bit more time consuming but at least I can carry on with my project.
Regards
Dave.

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