can no longer "select texture"?

Anyone know of a workaround? I used to be able to select an object, click "select texture" and edit one face of a cube (for example). Now when I click on the face I want to work on, it deselects the entire object! I'm hoping I just missed the memo on this one, but am afraid that this is a new "feature" with advantages I'm not capable of appreciating. Please, help!

In general, object selection seems to require unintuitive extra clicks now as well.

Signed,
Used to Love to Build

Drag a texture from your inventory to the face you want to "paint".

I did this yesterday and it worked. Did you click the radio-button " Select texture" first?

I've seen this happen intermittently, usually when SL was having load issues. I think it's related to packet loss, etc. Sometimes relogging helps, sometimes resetting my router, sometimes I just wait SL to have a better day.