Paste profile mismatch

Hello,
I've come across a paste profile mismatch while working in illustrator cs4.  I am building a short newsletter, and placing the finished images in InDesign to print, but somehow as i've been going along, the color profile changed.  It could have been accounted to an image that I placed in the document.  But as you can see on the page on the left, somehow my swatches changed in the process.  The left page was built off of the right, so i'm not quite sure why it's doing this.  I pasted the error message as well.  I looked it up in Illustrator Help, but I have no idea what color profiles are, or what the "source", "destination", or "working" could possibly mean.  If someone could explain to me in laymans terms what illustrator is doing, and how I can fix this problem or avoid it in the future, I would appreciate it!
Thanks

I said should not must for that reason.
Even though the printer may be more qualified to do the conversion in some cases, I find people who submit RGB files to have more problems with color consistency, neutral highlights & blacks across their brand cause every printer converts differerently. Unless you are printing to a device that is RGB like a Lambda, I recommend creating your files in CMYK when your destination printer is CMYK.

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