My illustrator cs5 eyedropper tool will not pick up any color! help!

I have been scrolling through this forum and google, and have not found an answer.
My Illustrator CS5 has been working all day, and I went away from it momentarily to pack some boxes for moving and the eye dropper tool started picking up colors that didn't exist in the placed image i'm grabbing from.
(clearly not black within that circle...)
I "found" a solution on this site where you go into your eyedropper options and make sure your appearance boxes are checked, and they weren't so I did that, and now the eyedropper tool won't pick up any color at all.
I have a project deadlines that require this program, and i've tried just about everything but re-installing.
Anybody have ANY solutions?
Here are the way my settings are now:
P.s. I'm not crazy tech saavy, so go explanation crazy if you'd like.

It's not live traced just vectored with the pencil tool!
I was trying to grab the individual pixel color from a jpeg, cmyk image to apply to the shapes drawn with the pencil tool.
I'm not sure what the problem was with the tool/program, but it seems to have fixed itself!
However, I appreciate your response anyways!

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