Adobe Color Theme Issues in InDesign CC

When I create a custom color theme using cmyk the colors are visually correct at that stage. However, when I go to select it under "My Color Themes" to use it n a document, the colors are "visually" off and do not appear to match the swatches I created. Is anyone else having this problem and is there something I need to do to correct it?

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And if this piece of information is of any use, my yellow doesn't seem to change at all.
Any ideas please? I've tried searching for it, but maybe I'm not putting in the right combination of keywords. Hopefully I'm just being obtuse and someone will tell me to put a checkmark in a box somewhere.

There are some slight value changes between the Theme and the Swatches, but we're only talking a change of 1 or 2 and so the colours appear to stay true now. Total pain to have to do this extra little step every time. =)
a huge, glaring, and sloppy problem which really ought to be fixed by Adobe pronto.
You can batch change the color mode of swatches if you select all of the swatches and double click them. Or, you can simply leave the Lab values and let the conversion to the correct CMYK space happen when you export to PDF.
I'm guessing the fix won't be coming soon. The original Kuler app had the same color management problem. It's hard to see how they will fix it and keep Color Themes as a cloud based web app.
When you convert the Lab swatches the CMYK values you get will depend on the document's assigned profile, so if you make two document's with different profiles assigned you'll get different CMYK values when you convert the Lab values. Here is US SWOP vs US SNAP
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5   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x902674c8 prepareForMethodLookup + 78
6   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90267337 lookUpMethod + 81
7   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x902672e1 _class_lookupMethodAndLoadCache3 + 47
8   libobjc.A.dylib                         0x90266ac1 objc_msgSend + 81
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10 com.apple.geode                         0x0107985e +[DGContextMgr newBitmapContextWithAcceleration:] + 49
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15 com.apple.iPhoto                        0x0008236b 0x55000 + 185195
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17 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95ed1416 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 22
18 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95ed0db5 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 709
19 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb5bc2 __CFRunLoopRun + 1842
20 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb502a CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 378
21 com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x95eb4e9b CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123
22 com.apple.HIToolbox                     0x9052af5a RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 242
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