Trouble with the Eye Dropper tool

The Eye Dropper tool is acting funky. It was preventing me from picking up the color of my template when in outline mode - instead selecting no fill and no stroke. I finally got it to work by unchecking "Appearance" in the tool options. I didn't actually change any settings inside appearance (everything inside is still checked). That did allow me to select the templates color, but now it is also selecting my "path color". If my layer's color is set to Cyan for example, eye dropper actually selects cyan if i click on the path.
Is there a way to allow template color selection but avoid path color selection?
EDIT: I just discovered that these settings don't even pick up the template color correctly. They choose the color of the auto-dim/opacity that occurs when setting a template.

When working from a template in outline mode, put the template on a template layer (see manual on how to do that). Then work on another layer. Only that second layer should be in outline mode.
Then, when picking up colors from a template pixel image, press the shift key when picking up the color with the eyedropper. Of course what Jacob says about screen values remains.
When asking questions in the forum, please be very specific about the tools you use and the artwork you use them on.

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