Black Text on top of a background, is grey

I'm getting fairly frusturated trying to do something simple. I just started using InDesign.
I want to add text on top of a green background, near the very to of the page. Everytime I use the text tool, it shows up nice and black like I want, but once I unselect it, the text fades to like a grey color.
How do I get it to display right? I'm thinking it is blending it with the background color?
However, when I press enter and go down the page further, to where I don't want it positioned, it seems to blacken. I don't understand what is going on, any help is appreciated.

Can you post a link to a sample of this file? Needn't be more than a box with the background and some text overlapping and not.
It's puzzling to me that you say it gets lighter on the background. Unless you've changed it, the black swatch overprints by default, so it should actually appear darker. Are you sure your eye isn't playing tricks on you? What values do you see in Separations preview?
And I still wnat to know the answers to the porevious questions about the printer and settings.
Peter

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