Newbie Text Color Question

Hey all! I am in desperate need of some help here. I use Photoshop CS (Mac) on a very irregular basis and am having trouble with changing the color of text.

I will select the text tool, click on my canvas and begin typing. At this point, I have black selected as my 'foreground color' yet no letters are displayed. Oddly enough, the text color box on the toolbar at the top of my document has a question mark instead of a color.

After typing, I will select the text and attempt to change the color to black once again. This does not work even after I select OK after choosing black. The text color box just goes back to displaying a question mark.

I know there has to be a super simple answer to this question but I just can't seem to make this text black. Any help for a newb would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance!!!!!!

If I'm not mistaken there is an issue that is fixed in the PS 9.02 (cs 2) upgrade available free from the Adobe site.

I remember reading something about almost exactly what you are talking about.

[QUOTE=tornupinside]If I'm not mistaken there is an issue that is fixed in the PS 9.02 (cs 2) upgrade available free from the Adobe site.

I remember reading something about almost exactly what you are talking about.[/QUOTE]


I am still working with regular ol' Photoshop CS. I don't have the $160 to upgrade right now, but I'm still looking for a fix.

If I uninstall and then reinstall Photoshop, will I run into any problems (like settings, current files, etc.)?

I'm sorry, I thought I saw CS2 up there.

Lets see here, Have you tryed trashing your prefs?

Quit Photoshop

Drag the Adobe Photoshop CS Prefs.psp in the Users/[ user profile ]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CS Settings folder to the Trash.
Restart Photoshop.

If the problem is still there after you re-create the Photoshop preferences file, the problem isn't related to the preferences file. To restore custom settings, drag the file you moved in step 2 back to its original location, and then click Yes to replace the new preferences file.