How to I keep my bright Blues in Indesign?

I seem to have some persistent problem in Indesign, that's damaging my ability to actually use it. I need bright, vibrant RGB colors. Everyone knows that in Photoshop, if you convert a 0,0,255 Bright Blue to CYMK, you get a greyish, dull, shell of the former color.
This is happening a lot in Indesign. Sometimes I can get the bright blue. Sometimes the blues are all converted to this ugly blue, and I can't get it back. Yesterday, I could keep the bright blue, UNLESS I imported, of all things, a .PNG file, in which case, the .PNG, and all of the blues in the file, were converted to this ugly version. It's as if sometimes Indesign arbitrarily, or when I bring in a .PNG file, says "Okay I'm converting everyting to CYMK now."
How do I get around this? How can I keep my bright blues all the time (as I would see them in RGB), expecially when I import .Png files?

Dov beat me to the punch... his advice is spot-on; the Pantone Process book is a great resource when you're in a situation where you don't have a good proofing environment (i.e. an uncalibrated monitor and/or printer), or if you're not 100% certain of where the final print will take place.
These CMYK formulations provide a good general reference to offset press conditions; the actual end-product may not match the swatchbook precisely in all cases, but you'll not only be in the ballpark but in the infield. (If your project is color-critical then your soft- and hard-proofing process needs to account for this, of course.)
Ideally you would want to calibrate your monitor using a hardware calibration device, control your lighting in your design studio and have the correct ICC profiles for the destination press or printer... but in the real world not everyone has access to some or all of these things.

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