Colour change when placing Photoshop image

Help needed! In Indesign CS4 I have created a template and within the program have made a couple of rectangular boxes filled with 20% black, placed on the master pages. These have text placed over them in the main pages.
Placing a Photoshop CS4 .psd image in a page of the document, changes the colour of these boxes automatically to a darker colour.- both on screen and printing. If I delete the Photoshop image, the colour of the boxes changes back to what it's supposed to be. I've checked the fill colour of the boxes with and without the image file being placed and both times it says 20% black.
I've checked the Assign Profile settings in both Indesign and Photoshop and both say sRGB IEC61966-2.1 but never having gone into these settings before, I don't know if that's correct.
Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? Thanks.

I will check the Photoshop file to see if this is a problem. As a workaround, I have saved the image as a jpg and placed in the Indesign document and this seems to work fine.
Thanks for this suggestion.

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