InDesign seeing spot channel color from Photoshop as a lab value

Does anyone know why Indesign sees a spot color that is created in Photoshop as a lab value rather then a cmyk value?  FYI - I'm using CS4 6.0.5 and not planning on switching to 5 for a while and also on a Mac - using Leapord 10.5.8, and about to switch to SnowLeapord.
Anyways, If I place a Photoshop tiff into Indesign the spot color shows in the swatches as a lab value, and in Illustrator it is a CMYK value?
I can get it to see the color as CMYK in Indesign if I use a color library swatch from Photoshop, but no other way. 
I'm using the color swatch for a RIP that uses that channel to print White ink, and sometimes it's useful to create the channel in Photoshop, the RIP sees the channel by a certain spot color designation.  The spot color needs to be named in a particular way in order for proper work flow, so it's not desirable to have the swatch named a Pantone color.
Any ideas?
Thanks

You can take a custom spot colour and rename it to whatever you like in photoshop, when I import the graphic into InDesign CS4 I see the swatch as Lab spot (all Pantone Solid spots are defined as Lab, cmyk values are only determined by an app' that is asked to convert)
and when placed into Illustrator CS4 I see the same and if I double click on the spot swatch (still with the custom name I gave it in photoshop), I have a choice of Lab, cmyk etc at that time.
Indesign will correctly see the swatch as Lab until you request the app' to convert to cmyk at output or double click on the swatch and change it to cmyk.
You don't want the swatch to be cmyk, if you do that it will output as cmyk... if you want it to separate at the rip it needs to be a spot, which is seen by default as Lab in any application or can be converted to cmyk on request.  You can't have it as a cmyk spot, that does not make sense unless you are outputting as only cmyk.

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