How do I transfer a color from one object to another without losing the gradient?

COLORING AN OBJECT AND SAVING THE GRADIENT
These are my notes.
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Choose the EYEDROPPER tool.
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Sample the color you want from an object in your image.
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Double-click on the fill icon at the bottom of the tool panel.
This brings up the COLOR PICKER panel.
In that panel, you'll find the numeric value of the color you sampled.
I followed these instructions but when the COLOR PICKER panel came up, it didn't show the color it was suppose to show.  The color I sampled with the eyedropper was a light blue with a gradient.  I had a few different files up with the same image.  One file brought up the color orange in the Color Picker panel.  And another file brought up a total BLACK, with a numeric value of 0000!  Can anyone tell me what's happening? 

My guess is the eyedropper tool is struggling.  The best way and the one I use is to get color readings in Photoshop using its eyedropper tool.  Write down the color percentages for each color you want from the image.  Then, in Illustrator, I use the color palette to create new swatches using the percentage I wrote down from the actual image file.  Those new swatches can be used ( or transferred to ) in the gradient palette.  I have never used the eyedropper tool for getting color from anywhere in Illustrator.  But, that's just me.

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