Placed files color values change

When I open up a cmyk doc in photoshop, fill it with values that make a black, lets say c=60 m=40 y=30 k=100, then save it and then place the file in a cmyk Illustrator doc, the values are no longer 60,40,30, 100. When I hover the dropper over the swatch - they have changed rather dramtically - in this case to 75, 67, 67. 90. I thought the adobe programs were supposed to maintain consistancy on something like this. I have the color settings managed by bridge saying that all the programs are color synchronized. Anyone know what could be causing this?

Mylenium (or whoever)
Well, I am just using a very basic example for this forum discussion. My sycnchronized settings are the "North America Prepress 2" (althought I also tried "North America General Purpose 2" with no luck) I start a new cmyk file in photoshop 300x300 pixels. Profile defaults to "US web coated swop 2" via the "north America prepress 2" color settings. I go to the color mixer and enter values C=60 Y=40 M=30 K=100 then fill the foreground with that color.
Then save as psd file - making sure to "save with the ICC profile" option (US web coated swop 2) is checked.
In illustrator, I open a new cmyk file.(again, illustrator is synched to have the same color settings) I go to file/place and place the file as a linked file I just created in photoshop. When I measure the values on the file I just placed with the eye dropper which were 60,40,30100 in photoshop - they now have become C=75.02, Y=67.97, M=67.02, K=90.16 in illustrator. It makes no sense.....I don't know what I could be missing. It doesn't matter what color I use either...it could be values that make a red or blue....it comes out different in illustrator. Now, I discovered that if I unlink the placed file (embed it) then suddenly the values become much closer to what they should be (within 1%) But I'd still like it to work how it should when I place the linked file.
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