Greyscale tiff won't colorize placed in Illustrator

I was working with a scan today, Greyscale and I was able to place it  into an Illustrator file then colorize it without issue. When I went  into the Photoshop file and duplicated the original locked scanned layer  and saved out the tiff would not colorize in Illustrator. Had to go  back to the raw scan and rework the file without duplicating the  original locked layer. This took extra time and was a bit troubling.  Does anyone know why the greyscale tiff with duplicated layer won't  colorize in Illustrator? Any insight to this would be greatly  appreciated. Oh one final detail, the colorization worked with spot colors but not CMYK builds. I forgot to mention that.

You could never colorize placed tiff CMYK files in Illustrator.  You can, however, colorize single channel Grayscale files and make changes to them. But then again, I base this information on CS4 on a home computer and not CS5 which is at work.

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