Add used colors (PMS)

I like to delete all the swatches in my Swatches Pallet so I'm left with no swatches (starting clean). This way when I create artwork using PMS colors (swatches), I can add them later and then in the Swatches Pallet I'll have only the PMS colors and CMYK colors that are used in the document.
However, and I don't recall this happening before, but now when I "Add Used Swatches", all of the PMS colors will appear in the Swatches Pallet, but appear as Process Colors represented by CMYK values in the Color Pallet. I used to do this (add used swatches) and when they were added, they would appear as a spot color in the Swatch Pallet and read as "Pantone xyz" in the Colors Pallet.
I want the PMS colors to be added as spot PMS colors, not cmyk process...
Illustrator CS 5 (15.0.2) using MBP v10.6.8.
Thanks.

Thanks Monika,
I think that up until recently I used to do the "select unused" and never really noticed that I switched to cleaning after I originally cleaned out the pallet and after I added PMS swatches, and then all of a sudden realizing my problem. Thanks, I thought it was a bug or something I had modified, but now know for certain.
Thanks.

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