Eyedropper tool in Illustrator not working on pasted Photoshop image

Hey,
I've copied images from 3 different layers in Photoshop into Illustrator. One is an outline, another is a colour fill and the last is a filled in ellipse. When trying to use the eyedropper tool to get a colour used in the colour fill, it doesn't work - only showing black or white. But it will pick up the ellipse's fill colour. It picks up other colours in the document fine that I drew in Illustrator.
Any idea what I need to do to get this to work? I'm at a loss.
Thanks!
Mike

Thanks Mike!
I think I've figured out what was going on. The eyedropper was picking up only the outline layer's colours so was only getting black when on an outline, and white when on the colour fill area. If I delete the outline and left only the colour fill and the pink background, the eyedropper works. The outline was blocking the eyedropper from accessing the colour fill. Not sure exactly how that works as the outline isn't filled in with colour (obviously, otherwise the colour fill below wouldn't show through). Nor is it completely transparent - it's just an outline.
They are all copied into a new document on the same layer, but grouped. So I either have to delete the outline layer or turn it off in the - I'm not sure of the terminology here - layers that are within the layer(?).
Hope that makes sense - thanks for your brainstormage Mike and Ton!

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