Color palette in Character/Paragraph styles

In AI CS5, where does the Character Style Options dialog pull it's colors from for the Character Color list (see image)?
I'm working in a RGB document, yet I see predominantly CMYK colors. I thought it might be the default swatches palette so I closed it and opened my custom color palette, but I'm still seeing the wrong set of colors.
I'd like to add or edit colors in the list, or load one of my palettes, but I can't figure out how or if it's possible.
Can anyone help?
Chris

Chris,
The colors are from the Swatches panel. If you're getting CMYK colors in the list then you have the CMYK default swatches (or other CMYK swatches), not the RGB swatches. Click on the Swatch Libraries menu, go to Default swatches, select Basic RGB. Load those into the Swatches panel, then open the Character Style Options. The RGB colors should now be in the list.
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