[Basic Paragraph] style behaviour upon copy/paste

Hi,
we just get started changing from Quark to InDesign, and our lead layout-producer is not so crazy about style sheets, so everything she creates is using the [Basic Paragraph] Style.
A by her created libary now contains groups of text objects in Basic Paragraph with format changes +
When I use these groups, or copy and paste from another document, why does InDesign keep the changes like fontsize or -color, but does change the font?
My basic paragraph does use another font, so its quite annoying INDD keep the changes, but keep change the font.
What can I do to prevent INDD from changing the font?

So, i made this beauuutiful thingy for a test. It looks disgusting, i know. The point is that it uses 4 fonts and different modifications.
If I get you right, to prepare a "good" document, our layout-producer should clogg our documents with different paragraph-styles not to use the Basic? Sure, she can convert it into paths, but different collegues have to translate this stuff later so that isnt an option.
Maybe she can "design" things like that in Illu, giving us an AI to use.
I made an irritating discovery:
As I built this thing with Futura as my Basicparagraph-font, i dragged it into a libary, closed every doc to change my default-paragraph-style to another font to see what happens. I set up a empty doc and dragged it back in again – no changes at all. I was surprised. Its in the basic, it has a +, and if i click on basic it changes to GillSans, if i alt+click the modifications (like the colors) turn to black… – this is what i was looking for :-)
But why with my other test-object. Im nearly in closing time here, so i will upload an image tomorrow, but the only variable that haved changed to my second try minutes ago:
– the objects were converted using Q2ID (Markzware)
– the group just contained one (but another) font
Maybe theres the problem somewhere.

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