Output Preview showing confused results

Hello all, Please bear with me as I attempt to explain a very odd occurrence I am seeing in Acrobat X. Also, my assumption is that this is something in the authoring tool confusing Acrobat, as if I attempt this using only Adobe products I cannot replicate the weird result. However, I don't know enough about PDF authoring to know what could possibly be in the file to confuse acrobat so much as to give these inconsistent results.
I have created a very simple PDF with 2 pages. Each page has a black box that was created with 100% black. If I open the Df in Acrobat X and set the view to Two Page View and then bring up my Output preview and turn off black both pages show as blank (as expected).
However, if I open the page in Single Page view, then when I go to Output preview and turn off black page 1 is completely blank (as expected), but when I go to page 2, there is still a gray box and the values are showing me this is built with a 4-color black.
And then, if I use the Object Inspector tool, it will tell me that the black box is 100%k. And then this changes things when I go back to separations. Now separations shows this box as gone with black unchecked.
Here is a link to the example pdf if anyone is able to find the issue causing this strange behavior. Thanks,
http://107.1.178.195/test-K.pdf

I think you are measuring the image preview from Photoshop when you open your rastered Photoshop file in Acrobat. You should probably save your original Illustrator file as a PDF (not print to PDF). When you open the PDF in Photoshop, you are converting your vector file to an Image, which I think also creates a low-res preview of the actual image (which has various uses). If you check your Photoshop preferences, you might be able to turn the preview creation off, but I really wouldn't worry about it. As a test, save your original Illustrator file as a .tiff and see how that works. Unless you are adding something in Photoshop that can't be added in Illustrator or InDesign, it's usually better to keep everything vector, as much as possible.

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