[jQuery] Problem getting selected value from drop-down

Hi, Can anyone help with the following? With JQuery, I can't
successfully grab the selected value from a drop-down. The alert just
shows an empty message. At least it is not showing undefined (as it
was for my other attempts - you can see what these were from the
commented out code), but I would expect it to display one of the
values One-way, Reciprocal or Other. Perhaps I have to do some
conversion on the result. Your contributions to this post will be
greatly appreciated.

In my HTML I have:

<select name="dllViewSelector"
onchange="showSelectedView(this, allViews, allSections,4,10)">

<option id="oneway_4" value="one" selected="selected">One-
way</option>
<option id="recip_4" value="two">Reciprocal</option>
<option id="other_4" value="three">Other</option>
</select>
.
.
.
<span id="Add_0" class="actionOptAdd"> <input type="button"
name="btnOk_AddToProject_0" class="button-click-grey" value="Add to
Project" /></span>
.
.
.
And in my JQuery I have ....

$(".actionOptAdd").bind("click",
function()
{
p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector option:selected").text();
alert(p_viewSelector);
// Also get blank message for:
// p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector option:selected",this).text
();
// (Also tried - getting undefined as a result)
// p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector").selectedIndex;
// p_viewSelector=$("#dllViewSelector").attr("selectedIndex");