CS6 Character Styles - Keeping Color - Bug!

Hi myself ad a number of colleagues are having the same issue where the fill colors of character styles are not keeping in the file. You create your text, then import character styles, and then it looks like it works, but the fill color doesnt come across. Or if it does, when you close and open the document, the fill for the text is 100K. We have alargen number of documents to edit, and its being a real pain having to reapply the styles each time. It basically defeats the purpose of having the character style function. Please Help!
There are some work arounds, but a fix from Adobe would be really needed! please update CS6 before CC!!

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http://forums.adobe.com/message/5081132#5081132

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