ohh, thanks, the description that they gave for the eyedropper didn't make it sound to work the way I wanted, and they just happened to call it a "Color Picker"
Now if you want to understand #2, Microsoft Powerpoint gives an option to use a bitmap image to color your fonts as opposed to just one or two hand-picked colors, allowing you to do some creative text. As far as I know, photoshop has an option like this with an odd name, I think this would be a great feature.