Transparency grid outside of canvas?

I just upgraded to CS5 from CS3 yesterday and I'm trying to figure out if what I'm seeing/doing is a "feature" or a "bug". When i expand a window to show the grey area around an image and then command+click on a layer mask to load a selection, the grey area outside of the image changes to the transparency grid. It's not a usable area, and it's without question not part of the image. I just want to change it back without quitting out of photoshop each time. Anybody familiar with this?
As a side note, the eyedropper behaves strangely after this occurs. When clicking to select a new color, the entire image turns black. I can't help but think this is some type of new masking feature, but I cannot find any documentation on it to either learn how to use it or turn it off. Is it a CS5 bug?

Found a couple of brief comments to a PhotoshopNews article that addressed the issue:
• Jonathan Wills Says:
June 15th, 2005 at 6:26 pm
The use of the term “canvas” in this article is misleading. Photoshop’s canvas is the editable area of the document window, and is referred to in the Canvas Size and Rotate Canvas commands. …
In other apps, this area is often called the artboard, but since this area is not a active area in Photoshop, that name is also a misnomer. You can make up any name you want, but don’t call it the canvas.
and
Phosphor Says:
June 15th, 2005 at 7:04 pm
Many of us on the Adobe Photoshop Forums have taken to calling that normally-gray area “the apron.”
Seems as good a name as any, and should prevent any confusion with how we know the artboard to behave in Illustrator.
(above excerpts from:
http://photoshopnews.com/2005/06/15/photoshop-canvas-color-tip/ )

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