Photoshop :: CS-3 Standard. Type Color Problem

I use the eye dropper and pick a color.

I click the text button.

The "color box" in the "text bar" keeps the previous color and text comes out in that color, not the new one. (Different pictures)
Windows XP-Home SP3 2 gig memory

A work around it to:

Back out of the color tool
Save the file
Reopen the file
Re-Pick the color

Then I get what I need as text color.

This seems to have come up in the last couple of weeks. At least I don't recall it happening earlier.

Is this a "Zap Preferences To Cure" thing or??