CS2 exported PDF comes out negative

A supplied PDF ad was placed in InDesign CS2.  When the page is exported at 300 dpi, the halftone images within the ad are reversed to negative form.  Everything else on the page is ok.  Any ideas what's happening?  If the ad is rasterized in Photoshop, there is not problem.  I would just like to know what is causing this.

I replaced the preferences and that did not work.  I played around with a few more export variations.  It appears to export fine with CS3 and CS4, so I have to agree that there's something odd in the way CS2 handles the images.  More specifically the manner in which is handles color.  In using CS2, I can achieve the desired result if I change the output color to anything BUT "No color conversion."  So it boils down to how CS2 handles the (monotone) spot black images that are created in Quark 7.
We certainly have many options to move forward with, but no concrete answer as to why it happens.
Thank you so much for your assistance.

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