Embedded profile mismatch after saving Indesign to PDF, what to do please???

After importing some pica's from photoshop to indesign and saving it as a pdf, I noticed that my colours are totally wrong.
I now get the message:
Embedded profile mismatch
The document's embedded colour profile does not match the current RGB working space.
The current RGB colour management policy is to discard profiles that do not match the working space.
Embedded: Adobe RGB (1998)
Working: sRGB IEC61966-2.1
What do I have to do to make sure the chosen colours stay as they are??? I read something about a PDF/X-standard and
the possibility to copy a file from one to another map, but I'm totally lost now.
Can this be solved with the printerguy by asking joboptions???
Just Pannicing ........
Thnx upfront, Marjolein

That depends on how much you care about profile mismatches. you can turn off the warning dialog in Edit> Color Settings by unchecking the "ask when opening" button. Otherwise, you might want to note the document profile, then set your application back to that.

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Every time I open a file I get a prompt which reads: Embedded Profile Mismatch.
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I am also assigning the Japan Color profile in Illustrator to be double sure.
Try not doing this.
If your workspace is already correctly set, it is a superfluous action. On the face of it, reassigning the existing profile sounds benign, but it might be triggering some bug in AI 14.
We are talking about an .ai and not an .eps document, right?

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Photoshop works perfectly when saving files as .psds etc. or PDF-Standards (PDF-X etc.), embedding the profiles correctly. However, InDesign and Illustrator do not embed any colour profiles in .pdfs, in their native formats (.indd and .ai) or any other format apart from .jpg.
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Thanks so much for your help, I didn't know any of those things. Very interesting.
In regards to Photoshop rasterizing PDFs, what exactly are the ramifications of that? A PDF-X saved from Photoshop is still fine to send to the print press, right?
So far, all the print work I do I design in the colour space specified by my printer, then save as a PDF-X1a (which is also what they specify), by doing 'Save As' in Illlustrator. I also name the file with the colour space, and my printer has not had any problems with this.
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