Indesign transparency multiply pdf/x-1a pdf/x-4 export pdf object not visible

Hello,
I've created a simple Indesign cs4 document under osx demonstrating the problem. I've copied from an Indesign document a rectangle with a fill color 100% cyan and a transparency effect multiply and paste the object within a new created document. I've paste the same rectangle again and switched off the transparency effect. Then I've create a new rectangle again with the same fill color and multiply transparency effect.
When I create a pdf with the standard pdf/x-4 settings the copied rectangle with the multiply transparency effect has disappeared, while the other 2 rectangles are visible. Creating a pdf with the standard pdf/x-1 settings in Indesign, then all 3 rectangles are visible.
I've created a zip file named Indesign.zip with the following 3 elements:
- multiply.indd - indesign document
- pdfx1.pdf - export pdf with pdf/x1 settings (3 rectangles are visible)
- pdfx4.pdf - export pdf with pdf/x4 settings (only 2 rectangles are visible)
Opening the document with CS5 and creating pdf files, we obtain the same strange result.
You can download the zip file from the following link:
http://www.symeta.be/symeta/static/files/Indesign.zip
How do we explain this peculiar problem?
Regards,

Peter, John,
If there is no solution finding corrupt objects before going to production (creating pdf files), then the problem is only detected when the job is printed! More important, if the corrupt object is located in an advertisement, then you customer wouldn't pay.
To further investigate the problem I've create 2 snippets with the following names:
- Snippet_Good_PDFx4_Result.idms (snippet of the object who's visible after conversion to pdf/x-4)
- Snippet_Wrong_PDFx4_Result.idms (snippet of the object who's not visible after conversion to pdf/x-4)
You can download these snippets from the following link.
http://www.symeta.be/symeta/static/files/Snippets.zip
When I replace the following 4 lines from the bad snippet:
                            <PathPointType Anchor="0.21122640285165062 35298.673065771356" LeftDirection="0.21122640285165062 35298.673065771356" RightDirection="0.21122640285165062 35298.673065771356"/>
                            <PathPointType Anchor="0.21122640285165062 35440.40534923592" LeftDirection="0.21122640285165062 35440.40534923592" RightDirection="0.21122640285165062 35440.40534923592"/>
                            <PathPointType Anchor="141.94350986741858 35440.40534923592" LeftDirection="141.94350986741858 35440.40534923592" RightDirection="141.94350986741858 35440.40534923592"/>
                            <PathPointType Anchor="141.94350986741858 35298.673065771356" LeftDirection="141.94350986741858 35298.673065771356" RightDirection="141.94350986741858 35298.673065771356"/>
With the following 4 lines from the good snippet:
                            <PathPointType Anchor="154.96062992125985 161.1023622054882" LeftDirection="154.96062992125985 161.1023622054882" RightDirection="154.96062992125985 161.1023622054882"/>
                            <PathPointType Anchor="154.96062992125985 302.8346456700551" LeftDirection="154.96062992125985 302.8346456700551" RightDirection="154.96062992125985 302.8346456700551"/>
                            <PathPointType Anchor="296.6929133858268 302.8346456700551" LeftDirection="296.6929133858268 302.8346456700551" RightDirection="296.6929133858268 302.8346456700551"/>
                            <PathPointType Anchor="296.6929133858268 161.1023622054882" LeftDirection="296.6929133858268 161.1023622054882" RightDirection="296.6929133858268 161.1023622054882"/>
Then the result is ok!
The bad one has very strange coordinate values, such as 35298.673065771356 which is about 12452 mm! When placing the bad snippet in a new Indesign document the result is ok, just after converting to pdfx/4 the object isn't visible anymore!
Who can justify this strange behaviour?
Regards?

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