Live Trace Button Disappear

I need help with Live Trace.
I have CS2 and I use to be able to get live trace. But I am having problem with it today. I have place a jpeg image, so the object type is image. After chosen the object and click Object>Live Trace, the tracing options... is grey. Anybody got any idea why? Thanks

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