That's odd, becaue the eyedropper works just fine for me with my Poser 6. I just tried it on a character wearing a shirt, and the shirt has several different materials, and the eysdropper easily picked out the buttons, the trim, tha fabric, the hem, and the collar. It never once tried to select the figure underneath or the background. From all the odd problems some people have that other people don't, it's almost like as if Curious Labs sent out a different version to each customer :)