White Balance eyedropper not working?

Hi all,
Has anyone else tried doing a white balance adjustment in Aperture 2.0.1 with the eyedropper?
In 1.5.x, it worked great -- I just clicked the eyedropper, clicked on a known-neutral-grey area of my photo, and the white balance was adjusted very well.
In Aperture 2.0.1, I click on the eyedropper, then click on the same neutral-grey area, and for a second the photo adjusts beautifully -- then the white balance controls seem to randomly adjust back, and I get a photo that is no more color balanced than the original one.
Is anyone else seeing this, and/or does anyone have any ideas why Aperture won't stick with the initial adjustment I'm seeing?
Thanks in advance!
\marc

Still not working. I think the root cause of the problem is the mechanics of using the tool itself; I hope this screen shot shows up below ...
Here I have APPLIED EFFECTS open, and have selected Midtones (Greys) to be expanded so that the eyedropper and other details appear:
Now, just below where it has a box and "Impacted frame area in white" (which I know is a checkbox allowing the area effected to be seen), there is a little color box and an eyedropper.
What EXACTLY do I do to select (activate) the eyedropper and subsequently tell the program what I feel should be grey in the selected clip?
As mentioned before, I can click it and the cursor briefly changes to the same shape as the eyedropper. But as soon as I move the cursor a fraction, it changes back to an arrow (normal cursor) shape. Even then, going to the area I need to select in the image, and then clicking it, does exactly nothing to the appearance of the image shown -- even if the colors start way off. No correction at all. It is as if the tool does nothing. The color wheels below all this DO work however - it's just the eyedropper that doesn't do anything. This just cannot be Adobe's intention. I am convinced there must be some flaw in how I am selecting the tool itself. And the user guide - needless to say - is worthless in explaining the mechanics.
So very frustrating. This appears to be the only thing wrong with the program - nothing else seems amiss.
NOTE: To add insult to injury, this promised white/gray/black balance feature and the three-way-color corrector is the SOLE REASON I purchased the software. Funny.

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