Color issue in an InDesign CS4 document

Something strange is happening in an InDesign CS4 document: All of my my objects that use RGB color swatches appear darker (or grayer) in the document than the RGB swatches themselves. It might be that all of the objects are converting to CMYK and I'm not getting the true RGB colors within this document. Oddly, when I copy an object from this document – say, a simple shape with 100% color fill – into a new document, the object renders correctly with RGB in the new document. That makes me think I've got a universal setting within the original document that is converting my colors strangely. (Potential clue: In the new document, when I click on an RGB swatch, the Swatch Options box shows the Color Mode as RGB, making the color correct. In the original document, when I click on the same swatch color, the Color Mode says System (Macintosh). But when I switch it to RGB, I see a warning icon referring to Out of Gamut color, and when I click on the Gamut correction, it renders the RGB swatch as the off-color I'm trying to avoid.) Is there a universal setting change I should make in the original document so my colors render correctly on screen (I'm trying to use the Web Color Mode)? Thanks!

Brilliant, Peter, thank you. I wouldn't have figured that out on my own. Oddly, the Edit Menu settings had been modified and I had to search to even find the Transparency Blend Space menu. Once I did and reset the Menus, I could switch the CMYK to RGB (no idea how that got switched), and the colors are as they should be. Thanks so much!

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