My color picker in Photoshop CS3

.....picks up really random colors outside the open window ( works okay within it). Originally after upgrade it wouldn't pick up colors at all, I tried to find a solution, which included changing teh prefs to set back to only one screen as suggested in one forum, this improved it somewhat, it now picks up a color but it is incorrect ( totally random) Any ideas?
Thanks

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