Eyedropper tool only creates black stroke on text.

Everytime I use the eyedropper tool on some text, instead of picking up the font, colour, and attributes of the text I dropper, it somehow just outlines my selection with a black stroke. This has been happening with any kind of text, in many different documents. I can't figure out why it suddenly started. Ideas?
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Thanks.

Try trashing the prefs....
see Replace Your Preferences

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