Color swatches in RGB

Hey guys, I'm using indesign cs4 and when I click on the color tab on the right the color slides are in RGB. The project I'm working on is meant for print, is there someway that I can change this? I guess because I'm seeing RGB there I'm afraid it won't print when it comes time to print, shouldn't I be seeing CMYK?
Also, when placing an image is it true that resizing the image (raster) will degrade the quality in indesign?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks Peter, that was a pretty cool little trick. I'll have to remember that.
Whew, okay I think what I was seeing was the RGB color sliders (think it was the color picker) and I never do anything for web so I just wanted to make sure the profile was set right. Rob if ID doesn't recognize grayscale profiles should I just set it as CMYK and leave it alone? The opacity problem wasn't any big deal I just left it alone and set everything back to 100%. I know Peter has kind of glossed over transparency before but it's still something I've had a hard time understanding. So I guess now my questions are should I go back and convert this images to CMYK instead of gray gamma? What is transparency and how do I add it? What is transparency blend space?
Sorry if this is a lot I'm just trying to understand, thanks guys!

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