Darker Places on line art make colors a different shade?!

So yesterday I was coloring line-art that had some dark areas in it with bright colors and it worked perfectly fine with the "background copy" layer on multiply and still the bright colors worked perfectly fine. Now for some reason When areas in the line-art are dark the bright colors are darker on layer 1! (not background copy" I have restarted my computer (mac) and force quit the application and tried again but nothing is working! I have no idea what is going on and this is very weird. The link below shows EXACTLY what is happening on my screen . The locked background layer is on "normal" Background copy is on "multiply" and Layer 1 is on normal! This was not going on yesterday and I am very worried. Note that The color I am using is bright red and it turns dark red on the picture. I am using a screen shot I took from the picture I found. But the bright red is perfectly fine on the white area. Please help I am using PSE9.
Link to what is going on: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=16bzog3&s=8#.U4ON6i_TbTc
- DrawingLover524

Open the file with the line art
Place a blank layer above this
Use the brush tool to paint on this layer. The brush tool utilizes the foreground color.
By using a small brush, you should be able to paint within the confines of the black lines. If you need to tidy up, use the eraser tool.
If you want to try with an adjustment layer, do this:
Open file with the line art
Open a color fill adjustment layer above this with the color of choice
Temporarily reduce the layer opacity of the adjustment layer so that you can see through it to visualize the line art
Left click on the mask (the white rectangle)
With a black brush, paint where you don't want color. If you go too far, correct with a white brush. Black hides, white reveals.
Reset adjustment layer opacity to 100% when finished
Tips:
D on keyboard sets color chips to default
X toggles between foreground/background colors
The bracket keys on the keyboard increase/decrease the brush cursor size
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