Hi all,
I thought I should share a solution to the question I posed, which I found while searching the inter-webs.
Here's the link:
Interactively extract points from a plot (ListPlot or SmoothDensityHistogram)
The user, Heiki, wrote a script that does, pretty much, exactly what I was looking for.
I hope this helps others as well.
Take care,
Matty