Shortcut eyedropper from brush tool problem

Just yesterday, when I have my brush tool selected, and I press Option[Mac], the eyedropper tool will appear, but now, the Smooth tool shows up.
Does anyone know how to revert back? I'm on a Mac using Illustrator CS5.5.
This is annoying me especially since i'm painting in illus and needs to select colours from a image using the eyedropper rather than from the swatch each time.
Help please..

Hi Kristy,
This may or may not be the case, but is it possible you accidently switched to using the Blob Brush tool?
According to the Illustrator Default Keyboard Shortcuts, pressing Option while using the Blob Brush tool will switch to the Smooth tool.
This is assuming you haven't adjusted your default shortcuts.
Michael

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