Export to PDF changes colors to a darker shade

I have an annoying problem with both Keynote and Pages: when exporting to PDF, the colors become darker than they appear on screen and on the printer.
I've tried various things to improve the situation, but to no avail:
1. tried using different color profiles for the colors;
2. tried printing to PDF (instead of exporting).
The problem seems to arise from the fact that I have a bitmap image on the page. Before I put the bitmap image on, the export is perfectly fine. Then when I add the bitmap and export again, the colors are wrong.
I've uploaded the Pages files and the PDF exports here:
http://ernstdehaan.com/pages/
Suggestions are highly anticipated!
MacBook Pro (C2D 2.16GHz, 15-inch, 2GB) Mac OS X (10.4.8)

I'm not at my Mac right now, so I cannot check, but I'm surprised you get the rectangle around the shadow. I thought that was fixed. Someone else may have the shadow story clearer.
Bug reports are made at http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/ , but it may be enough if you just enter the observation on the Pages feedback page at http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html .
You also have the option to play with your own color profiles in ColorSync Utility. It is not straightforward, but it is interesting to see what flexibility MacOS X gives us.
CS2 is Adobe Creative Suite. It includes Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop and so on. It is much better at following industry standards than Pages, but it is not as easy to use. And it costs more than ten times as much.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

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As pdfs are normaly calibrated for printig, they mostly use CMYK. CMYK cannot show all colors you monitor can do, especially deep greens or blues. But they look the same when printed, so if you change the calibration of the pdf to some RGB profile, it may look like in keynote, but not anymore the same when printed.
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