Paintbrush tool reverts to color/fill none. Cannot draw/trace anything. Please help

Hello,
I am fairly new to Illustrator and need some help. I am trying to trace an image using the brush tool. I can get some lines in and for some reason the brush tool begins to revert to fill none effectively just making invisible lines. I have the parent image on its separate layer and the line art on another layer. Layers are unlocked. When I use the brush it will look as if it is deleting/erasing what is shown on both layers. The brush tool is effectively erasing what is there already instead of drawing.
I tried searching for a couple days now and the best I could find is this:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4799313
I tried everything mentioned in the thread and it still isn't working. In fact I think the OP in that thread never really solved his issue too. I can barely even get my line art down please help! Thanks

Thanks rcraighead. I ended up just ctrl z-ing(is that even a work haha) back to a point were the brush worked. However I still dont know what happened. Thanks for your reply, if it ever happens again I will try it out.

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