Color blend layer appears pale

I am working with a colleague on some icons and am having an issue with a color blend layer. I'm using Fireworks CS5 11.0.1.7 and he is on CS4. The base shape is a shaded cube and we want to overlay a rainbow on the cube. For him this looks good, but for me the color layer is very pale (using the same PNG).
colleague on CS4:
me on CS5:
As far as I can tell we are doing the same thing. Am I missing something? Did the Blending change between versions?
Here is the layered PNG file:

Hi,
There definitely seems to be a version issue here. I have both CS4 and CS5.1 on the same machine and there is a huge difference in the way the Blend Mode is working. Technically however I'm not sure which version is working correctly.
I tried the various options and found that taking your grey and white box over the rainbow box layer and giving it a "Color Burn" blend mode looks similar to what you need for the specific situation (maybe brighten the rainbow colors a bit). Both versions Fireworks CS4 and CS5 show the same effect with this blend mode.
Hope this helps!
- Anita
Altered PNG source:

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