Regular draft and PDF color differences?

Hi,
I am working on an invitation in Pages that I made from scratch. When I look at it on the Pages program, it looks great! Everything is perfect. Then, I try to export it as a PDF.
On my invitation, there are a few stripes: two light green and two dark green, alternating. When I look at it in PDF version, there are two light green...and one dark green. Somehow the other dark green one turned into regular green!
I've tested the colors and they are, indeed, different. I've tried re-coloring the stripes, but it still turns out the same.
Any suggestions? Help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
~Mac User #1000

the underlying specification will be in the Profile Connection Space independently of whether RGB colourant model or CMYK colourant model is chosen in the specification interface
Enlarged explanation:
In a workflow as it was in PostScript language level 1 and working with e.g. QuarkXPress 3 or 4, if in the application interface a colourant combination of Cxx, Mxx, Yxx, Kxx was specified then that colourant combination would be rendered by the PostScript RIP in language level 1 mode.
Otherwise known as deviceCMYK, the problem with this workflow is that even if a standalone solid is to be specified, a prior private agreement between the person configuring the page description for printing and the person calibrating the printing condition has to be assumed.
If the workflow is based on the assumption that digital graphic printing devices have a gamut the size and shape of SWOP for printing of periodicals, and that all digital graphic printing devices can be addressed in CMYK laydown order (and in no other order), and that all digital graphic printing devices can be addressed in four colourant / four component mode in the first place, then there is no problem. But what if the deviceCMYK is passed to an inkjet printer that has completely different consumables (with completely different colours) than a SWOP printing condition? It is interesting to show how different the COLOURS are reproduced if differently configured digital graphic printing devices are fed the same COLOURANTS. This is why deviceCMYK is dead in general, and is dead specifically in relation to portable page descriptions where it is impossible to predict what digital colour devices will be available to audiences who render the page descriptions.
The problem is the portability of colour information.
/hh

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