Magic Wand won't select CS5.5 OSX

Was working on a file that is very intricate, going back and forth with shortcuts from the wand (W) to the eyedropper (I) and I must of hit something because now my magic wand won't select any of the fine details in my file, when I click it selects the whole artboard, no matter what layer I have selected.
Restarted and trashed pref with no help. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
I am on OSX

adobekilledourindustry wrote:
Solved my own problem. In all my shortcutting madness I must of hit "Q" and the file went into Quick Mask mode, which made selections non existent. Took quick mask off and now its working like it should.
In old versions this used to turn your screen pink. Not sure why Adobe thought it would be smart to take that feature out, but thank you Adobe, I just wasted an hour of my life trying to figure out WTF happened.....
I see your point. It makes sense that the whole image should be overlayed with ruby in QM mode when nothing at all is selected. (And if the preference to invert the behaviour is enabled, the whole image should be overlayed when all is selected.) It fails in CS6 on OS X 10.6.8. Please repair this, Adobe.

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