Indesign 5 - Pdf export - Changing transparency opacity

Just installed CS5.
Its my first time in Indesign for CS5. I need to make some changes on an Indesign doc I created in CS4 and save to pdf. There is a background image that I have on every page of the doc... its set to opacity of 40%. Every time I try to save for pdf and then open the doc in Acrobat the background image appears to be setback to be 100% opacity. What's going on in 5 that is causing this? It doesn't do this in 4.

I turned on overprint preview in Acrobat settings.
Unfortunately it had no effect on the view.
I think I traced the problem though.
The background image was created from a logo created in Illustrator.
I went back and re-copied the logo art from the same illustrator file, the exact same grouped set of vector art I orginally used, it still displayed the same problem in ID5 when exported.
Then I copied a different vector logo from that illustrator file into ID5. It worked fine, saved to pdf and worked fine in Acrobat. I think there was something corrupt or weird with that specific vector grouping that ID5 did not like. So, I isolated the problem, but now I have to potentially change a bunch of files I made. Argggh.
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