ICC profiles assigned to text?

CS5 (patched to 7.03), Mac OS 10.6.7
Hi Everyone,
My production coordinator made a PDF of my magazine for the printer yesterday and when he ran it through PitStop, several errors turned up to the effect of text having an ICC profile assigned to it. The text was several instances of periods and commas, the color was [Black] 100%, Adobe Caslon font, same as the rest of the text on the page and throughout the magazine that didn't get dinged as an error. Retyping the offending characters fixed the problem, but how can something like this happen? Or rather, How can it be detected from within InDesign rather than in PitStop?
We import Word docs styled with Word styles into InDesign to lay out the magazine.
PDFs are created by printing to ps file then distilled with the joboptions the printer provided.
I admit I know very little about color management (we don't use profiles, per printer request, so I've had limited exposure) but I thought it was only for images and profiles couldn't get assigned to individual characters of text.
Thanks for your insight!

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Edited by: Dipanjan Sanpui on Jul 16, 2009 2:30 PM

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