Paintbrush and paint bucket use wrong color in PE6 for Mac

Hi.  I am trying to use either the paintbrush or paint bucket tool to add a solid color in a layer.  I choose a foreground color and apply the tool and instead of using the color I've chosen, it uses an old color I used several photos ago.  (I chose the old color with the eyedropper tool in case that matters).  No matter what I do, it seems that this old color is stuck in both the paintbrush and paint bucket.  I've tried choosing a different color with the eyedropper, and although that color appears as the foreground color, the old "bad" color still applies when I use either the paintbrush or bucket tool.  I have reset the tools (no luck), rebooted photoshop (no luck), tried switching back to the default (B&W) colors (still no luck).  Does anyone have any suggestion what I can try?  I'm new to the forum and have tried searching for this issue, but can't find it.  I apologize if this is an old issue.  Thank you for your help.

Hi, thank you for this suggestion.  I will try it, and it also sounds useful for lots of quirky things.  In the meantime, I tried something else that solved my problem. I reset the eyedropper tool and picked another color with it and it cleared it out.  I had reset all the tools, but somehow it didn't work until I did this.  Thank you for your help.

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