Photoshop Color Picker not popping up?

Whenever I click on the color picker in Photoshop CS5, it is defaulting to opening up the eyedropper tool instead of the color chooser option. The eyedropper tool is not working correctly either. Does anybody know what setting might be causing the issue?

You can right click on the tool to open the flyout which contains the other tools.
Try a tool reset:
Benjamin

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