PMS to RGB: Pantone says PMS145C=R202 G119 B0, but Photoshop differs

Have been meaning to ask this question for some time.
I have (for example) an object set to spot color PMS 145 C 100% solid in an Adobe Illustrator drawing.
According to my Pantone Color Bridge Coated swatchbook, PMS 145 C "translates" to R 202 G 119 B 0.
BUT, if I "open" that AI file in Photoshop, and eyedropper that spot in the drawing, the RGB "translation" comes in as R 229 G 142 B 26.
I'm using CS2, and with Photoshop Color Settings at the default "North American General Purpose 2" at open time.
If I open the AI file as 300ppi CMYK, the spot color "translates" to the RGB values as above.
If I do this same operation with Photoshop set to open the AI file as 300ppi RGB, the same color eyedrops as R 230 G 143 B 26 (which is close, but not the same).
But NEITHER of these are the same as what Pantone publishes as the "official" equivalent RGB to the Spot color.
Why the discrepancy between Pantone's published equivalent and what Photoshop does?

Yes, yes, I do understand that what I see on my monitor often bears little resemblance to what comes out on any printer . . . or on another monitor for that matter. This is why I use the eyedropper to test a CMYK color mix, for example, and compare that to a *printed* CMYK swatchbook to see what it might "really" look like when printed offset. I say "might" because I understand that there's still a matter of the actual press this will run on.
The concern here is getting Photoshop software to "translate" a numeric PMS color defined in an AI file to the numeric RGB equivalent as published by Pantone. I know that RGB value will look different on different monitors, but if we can get the software to convert "PMS 145 C" that's defined as the color fill of a vector object in an AI file to RGB as 202, 119, 0 (Pantone's own published equivalent), then at least we have a conversion, regardless of how anyone's monitor displays it!
For example, an object filled with solid 100% PMS 145 C drawn in AI, "should" translate to RGB 202, 119, 0 when opened in Photoshop when I ask it to convert the colors at open time to RGB. With the file open in Photoshop in this situation, I would hope that the flat, 100% tint color area comes in as R 202, G 119, B 0 when it is tested with the eyedropper. From a programmatic standpoint, wouldn't this be a matter of maintaining a "table" of equivalent values in the Photoshop software [wherein PMS 145 C = R 202 G 119 B 0], whereupon the softwware could make a color translation based on a table lookup, and display that color as that number regardless of what the displaying monitor might do to it.

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