Colour Match Issues

hi guys
without wanting to upset the current findings here's my simple problem:
in Pages 08 I created brochures,leaflets and posters for people and never had this problem. I update to 09 and all of the colour matches I create using the colour picker or magnifying glass vary when they are printed. On screen and as PDF's they look great but when they hit a print press they look awfull.
The same thing has happened to websites I've just created in iWeb 09 borders and boxes all show up as other colours.
So whats happened to the software?

Tell us what step by step process you used to create the pdfs in v08 and how, if at all, you have changed that in 09 and possibly there might be something you can correct.
Color management has always been a dicey issue with Pages, so nothing new there.
Check what color values the documents contain. Quite likely there is some conversion from RGB to cmyk that is causing the issue.
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