DW CS3 Mac eyedropper doesn't work

Question

My eyedropper won't pick up colors outside the swatch panel.
If I click on a CSS class (say, "footer") in the CSS panel,
then click on the pencil icon to edit properties, then click in the
color sample for "Background color," I get a color swatch panel and
an eyedropper. The eyedropper allows me to pick colors from the
swatches, but if I hover over part of the page I'm designing, the
color correctly changes _temporarily_, in motion, to whatever I'm
hovering over, BUT nothing happens when I click, and nothing I can
do will change the color of the item to the color the eyedropper
was hovering over.
I don't know if it's relevant, but the color I was trying to
pick up was that of a "false column," where the color of a vertical
sidebar is actually a vertically tiled "background image" set by
CSS.
This is driving me crazy. I have to memorize the hex for the
color and then type it in every time.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Oh for crying out loud -- I feel like such an idiot! :)
It worked like a charm.
I have used Dreamweaver since MX, which is a number of years,
and I have routinely used the eyedropper to grab colors from all
over the place.
Maybe what confused me is that I not only switched from a PC
to a Mac, I switched from a desktop PC to a MacBook Pro, so I'm
using a trackpad instead of a mouse. Maybe the awkwardness (I'm
still not used to it) of dragging on a trackpad while holding down
the (one and only one button, on a Mac) made holding that button
down not "feel" like what I had done before.
Thanks so much!