CS5 Samples Wrong Color

I'm having issues with the eyedropper tool in Photoshop. I've found that after I add an adjustment layer, using the eyedropper tool on any given layer in the document will give me the wrong color. A color is sampled, but seems to be shifted in Hue/Saturation/Brightness from the original color on the layer. I've made sure that the tool is set to 'Point Sample' and 'Current Layer', but the issue persists until I restart Photoshop.
I posted this question around two months ago, and have since followed advice and reformatted my Computer, upgraded the graphics driver, upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista, and installed the 12.0.1 Photoshop update. The error is exactly the same as before, leading me to believe that I can't be the only one experiencing this.
Can anyone duplicate the issue on their setup? Any ideas on how to address it?
Thanks very much.

Have you tried turning off OpenGL? Sampling the wrong color only after a while would suggest it does this because it is not flushing a buffer or the card generally has a misconfiguration that prevents it from handling transparencies, so, if you will, after a while some "invisible pixel" obstructs the correct sampling region.
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