I figured out what I was doing wrong. Once I was in full screen with the picture I wanted to take, I hit the print screen button, then left clicked on the full screen pic so I could access the Paint program via the start button/ menu thingie. I have to hit alt tab to switch so the task bar is again in view. Which still seems to get rid of the full screen pic so I'm not sure why it makes a difference but it did.
Once I used alt tab to switch so the task bar was viewable I was able to paste into Paint. Wierdness imo.

I still want an easier way to do this though, this way just seems to be far more cumbersome than it needs to be.
Thanks for all the help.
