Illustrator CC - Color Picker for BLACK always shows 60C:90M:0Y:0K

In Illustrator CC, the color picker in the tool bar when showing 100% Black Text always comes up as 60% Cyan, 90% Magenta and nothing else. The little box on the tool bar will be black. The text will be black. But if I double click on the little box and get the Color Picker Window to appear, it has 60% Cyan and 90% Magenta filled in. If I change it to 100% Black and nothing else, hit enter, it will show as black but if I open the picker again, it will still be 60C 90M.
It only does this with 100% Black. If I have any other color it shows accurately as it should.
When Color separated the file is comes out right with the 100% as I want it. So really, its not a problem thats ruining the file its more of a preview thing and I am just curious as to why its doing it.
Illustrator CC 18.0.0 2014 Release.
Mac OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks.
In CMYK Mode. Blacks set to display accurately.

OBB,
I wonder whether it is a (hitherto unnoticed) bug, in which case a ug report would be called for,
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
or a corruption of preferences or something similar, in which case the list (maybe especially 4) or 6)) would be called for.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file, and when it is not caused by issues with opening a file from external media, see below. You may have tried/done some of them already; 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save current artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html
External media: It is always recommended here to open/save from/to own hard disk, and to copy from/to networks and removable media. You may be lucky (for a while), but the chances of file corruption and other unpleasantnesses are immensely greater when you use anything but the harddisk, and it is better to be safe than sorry.
In addition to the (far greater) risk of file corruption, some issues are mentioned here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/illustrator-support-networks-removable-media.html

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