Live tracing a jpg gave me a white square with a few vectors

I used the 3D Revolve effect to create a sphere. I then "expanded appearance" to try and "subtract from shape area" a portion of the sphere. It ended badly. So I copied and pasted the sphere into Photoshop, removed the portions I wanted gone and placed it into Illustrator in hopes "live trace" would save my bacon. It didn't. When I select the graphic and choose expand "live trace", it gives me a white square with a few vector points in it. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!

Go to Live Trace Trace Options so you can change the setup to color then choose 4 or 5 or 6 colors and check ignore white you get this.
You have to change the option to color or convert to grayscale and choose grayscale the default is b&w which is not what you want.

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