When I paste as a Smart Object in Photoshop, the gradients are wrong!

Occasionally when I paste a smart object into a Photoshop document, my gradient changes colors from color-to-color, to color-to-white!
This never happened in CS3. This also happens sometimes when I save to .svg! What's going on here?
Thanks in advance,
Cheyenne

Hi Monika,
thanks for your response
The color mode is sRGB IEC61966-2.1 in both Illustrator and Photoshop CS5 apps. No spot-colors. One color is #485970 and the other is #243446, and it's the latter color that turns white when I paste it into Photoshop as a smart object.
When I went to 'color settings' I noticed that my "Creative Suite apps were un-synchronized". I'm wondering if this is part of the problem? I've synchronized them though, and it hasn't seemed to have made a difference.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
~c
Color Settings in Illustrator:
Here's the vector in Illustrator:
And here's it when I paste it into Photoshop:

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