Color distortion with transparency setting

I used RGB for all color settings.
In this illustrator-made pdf file(ill.pdf), I used transparency (the light gray). I use illustrator CS (v11) and saved pdf as pdf1.4. It looks okey when opened in adobe acrobat. I used word 2003 to convert some text and saved as pdf too (pdf 1.4, wordfile.pdf).
•When I use this page to replace the word-converted page, the color got distorted ( I am using bright blue, red etc here, as you can see).
The funny thing is, if I just insert the ill.pdf, the word.pdf takes it as the right color, only if I use ill.pdf to replace word.pdf page, the color got distorted.
Would anyone be kind enough to help me out?
Thanks very much

Wow, that sounds really simple.
I did suspect it was CMKY, but all files were specified to be RGB when I did the conversion.
So where did you see the CMKY ? Is that in the single ill.pdf? Or you replace the wordfile.pdf page, and saved it and then looked at it in illustrator?
And forgive me, where did you change it back to RGB?
I know wordfile is empty. My real file is of course, multiple pages with a lot of text.
I just opened the final version of replacement (or what you might have done). When I opened it in pdf, the color is distorted. When I opened it in illustrator, the color is right, and the color setting is RGB.
So I still can't figure it out.
Thanks a lot.

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