Printing pattern swatch versus Expanded Art

Attached is a photo of the pattern swatch on the left and the expanded art on the right.
Since the colors are both the same, why is the pattern swatch so gray where as the expanded art is what matches my swatches I made.
Original art is below, on the left is the expanded art, on the right is the pattern swatch. Sorry the images don't cooridinate with each other.
My color space is Adobe 1998 for Illustrator CS5 and my textile RIP. I've never had any problems printing and matching swatches with regular art
until this art that has a pattern swatch. Any ideas?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14989564/SeaScrollsV4MarineKing_A.pdf
Attached is link to the sample file I am printing.

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