Issues with eyedropper in illustrator CS4

I've just moved onto Illustrator CS4,a nd ahve discovered several glitches with the eyedropper tool, in that you will try to sample a fill and stroke from another object, and it will show in the stroke and fill boxes that it has taken on this appearance, but the object itself doesn't change. Or sometimes it will take on the stroke, but not the fill. the only way i've gotten around this is to use the pathfinder tool to divide the object by itself, and then the eyedropper seems to work. major pain though.
does anyone know if there is any way to stop this happening?
thanks

Check your graphics driver configuration and install a new one/ different one. Also check your color profiles, should you be using any. Since sampling is done at the preview level, there may simply be an issue here where it sometimes cannot correctly "see" what's beneath. Also of course look for invisible layers or visible layers with seemingly nothing on them. Some of them may have appearances applied that would "block" everything. Sometimes a drop shadow on a stray line or point can have the weirdest effects... Other than that I'm not aware of standing issues with this, but anything is possible.
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