RGB swatches in CMYK document

hi all
here's a conondrum:
I am working on a document that I have set up in CMYK but, after placing an image from the web which must have been an RGB and using eyedropper to copy a colour from it, all the swatches and colours turned to RGB. Even the bits I created before placing the image and using eyedropper... and the colour scheme of the entire doc still is CMYK.
The document is intended for print, I therefore need to change it back somehow. How do I do that please?

Keep the document in color mode CMYK.
Open the RGB image in photoshop, and convert to CMYK.
Sample in Photoshop the color you need and write that down.
Go to Illustrator and create a swatch with the color you wrote down.
You cannot accurately sample colors from placed photos in Illustrator . Illustrator takes what is sent to the screen in RGB, and then converts that to your color mode. Do NOT use SHIFT eyedropper, though the color looks good your color will not match the CMYK values in your photo.
Illustrator will not change your cmyk document color mode colors to RGB because you sampled with eyedropper. You most likely changed the mode of the color panel to RGB. The color panel should always match the color mode of your document, the panel is misleading otherwise.

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