Healing brush can't select area with option-click

Here is another weird thing with CS5. The healing brush won't option click to select an area to use for the healing. Instead it insists on imposing a pattern on the area to be healed. I do not know where the pattern came from or how to get rid of it, And I would love to be able to option click to define the area I want to use for healing. What is going on here?

found my own problem. I selected a pattern as my source. Silly of me.

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