Colour in pdf is appearing washed out

Hi everyone,
I have a document with a whole heap of cross-references. I assigned a character style to them when I created them, so they're all pointing to the same style which has a specific Blue colour.
When I created this colour, I assigned:
a colour type of Process,
a colour mode of RGB, and
the colour value Red: 0, Green: 0 and Blue: 255.
The problem is that when I export to pdf some of these links appear with a blue colour that's a bit washed out, ie. not full 255 Blue as I specified. Oddly enough this only happens on some of the pages, not all of them.
The swatch icon has an out-of-gammut warning but I didn't think this would apply since I'm exporting a pdf that is using RGB colours anyway.
I tried setting the transparency blend mode to RGB. This helped so that the colours all appeared the same in Indesign but it didn't help with the way they appeared in the pdf. Also when exporting to pdf, I tried no colour conversion and also tried a convert to document RGB setting. Both of these produced the same results, ie. most of it is the correct blue but odd pages here and there appear as the washed out version.
I wondered if anyone else has experienced this or whether there's a workaround?
Appreciate any advice.

Simulate Overprint is available only when two conditions are met: you are flattening transparency by exporting to Acrobat 4 compatibility or lower, AND you are converting colors to a destination profile
Since you're saying that the above conditions need to be met before simulate overprint is available, I don't know why you're saying it's odd that it's disabled when "No colour conversion" is chosen. I mean choosing "no colour conversion" doesn't meet the requirements that you mention so it seems to me it shouldn't be enabled. But anyway, I tried a setting where it exports to Acrobat 4 but I got the following error:
"Pages with transparency will not include hyperlinks, bookmarks, movies, sounds, button items, or eBook tags. If your pages require these features, click Cancel, and then select an Acrobat 5.0 or later export option"
So due to the above error I didn't go ahead with the version 4 export as I need it to include hyperlinks.
So the first thing would maybe be trying Acrobat 5 or higher compatibility to keep the transparency live
Yes, I've already tried this but still no luck.
Next would be to explicitly convert to the document RGB profile, I think, and just verify that the blend space really is set to RGB
I also tried this - but again still getting the same result.
I'm a bit hesitant to post a couple of the pdf pages on a public forum as the ebook is for a client and I get a bit paranoid.
I don't really know what I'm going to do.

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