Problems with color tools

Hi All,
I had my CS4 installed in my office computer and it was working perfectly.
A couple of days ago I decided to deactivate from that computer and install it in my home computer. Now I am experiencing problems with the color tools. For instance, in the brush tool I can only select colors from the palette. If I put the select color tool over an image, it does not "read" de color It is not "reading" the color. It changes the tool to black.
Any idea why this is happening?
Marteca

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