Placed rasters shift colors in PDF output

Hi all,
New to the forum but been working with CS tools for many years now. I'm sure this problem is fairly straightforward but it has me completely stumped.
This problem has surfaced recently; I've noticed it before but the situations were never as severe. It appears that when I place a raster on a page, the colors of the other objects on the page change. This happens only on the page where the graphic is placed, and only with raster images; vector graphics and text etc. are fine. File types also do not change the result; the issue happens with BMP, PSD, JPG, with or without transparency.
The document is strictly for viewing as a presentation on-screen, via PDF. I am maticulous in making sure all the objects are in RGB color space and sRGB is used wherever possible.
In the image below, the graphic on the left slide is a raster with transparency from PS, and on the right slide a vector graphic (PDF from Visio). The blue background is a rectangle on the master filled with a spot color (0, 44, 119 / Pantone 288C), and the text is on the page in a frame from the master. The text and blue background appear correctly on the right slide, and seem somewhat flatter on the left slide. This is only apparent in PDF form, on-screen in ID they both look correct.
Anyone have any advice? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hey all. thanks for the replies; I am closer but further from a solution. I have experimented with your suggestions and this is what I found:
I re-assigned sRGB to the document and checked that Transparency Blend Space was Document RGB, no change.
Exporting to PDF/X-4 does resolve the issue IF the Blue stays as a spot color.
Exporting to PDF/X-4 with the Blue as a process color results in all pages appearing "faded", including those that are text-only, except those with shapes (simple rectanges/lines) or .ai vector graphics, with shadows.
Exporting to PDF/X-1a results in all pages appearing "faded" regradless of content.
Although PDF/X-4 and spot colors results in proper appearance, I am actually producing an Interactive PDF (transitions, embedded flash objects), and once you select "Interactive", the dialog for export options is totally different than the "Print" dialog, and there are no color options at all, so what I need is to resolve the issue pre-export, somewhere in my other settings. Swapping Spot Vs. Process colors (as Rob indicated) had no effect when exporting to Interactive.
I did notice that the option in PDF/X-4 that caused the change was on the "Output" tab, having "Output Intent Profile Name" set to standard (Document CMYK - U.S. Web Coated). If I enable that setting on any export profile and use spot colors, everything is correct (except the lack of interactive elements)
I also tried switching Color Management Policies ("Convert to Working Space" Vs. "Preserve Embedded Profiles") in Color Settings, no change.
Any other ideas? Thanks for the input!

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