Colored photos turn black and white when opening a new document in Photoshop. [was: help]

my colred photos turn black and white whenim opeing a new document in photoshop.'

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    Hey guys, how's it going?
    I'll try to keep this breif, but it may take a little while to explain. I've been getting a problem with PSE 9.0 where an image or layer that is in color suddenly turns black and white when I paste it into an open file. It's a lot easier to explain with pictures, so here you go.
    Figure 1
    Figure 2
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    Just a guess because I don't have the original images to play with, but the hammer and sickle is a grayscale image so images posted into it become grayscale. 
    Use Image / Mode / RGB Color to change the target image to color before pasting anything into it.
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