Reversing Black EPS in ID CS4

We place a ton of logos in our catalogs. 75% of those logos are solid black vector files. Every now and then, we want to reverse a logo against a solid color. Until today, we have been creating a white version of the logo we wanted to reverse, but today we tried something, and against all logic, it worked.
We placed an EPS logo and set it to lighten. The original logo is black, but on the InDesign page, it shows white. It even prints white, which blew my mind because the original is 0/0/0/100 (all K).
We tried it again on the opposite page with a different logo. Still an EPS, still 100% K, and now it doesn't print. Different logo, but I can't spot any differences. They're both built on the exact same swatch, but they're not working the same way.
It would be incredibly cool if we could build our vector logos to change color in InDesign. We're not going to use BMP files for logos, obviously. But even if we could just make black logos print white, that would be huge. Right now we just have multiple versions of each logo, and it would be incredibly convenient to just have one all-purpose logo.
So:
1) Why did 'lighten' work on a placed EPS file, turning black into white?
2) Why did a different EPS, using the same settings, show white on preview and not print at all (which is actually what I expected)?
3) Is there a way to build our logo files so that we can change the color after we place them?

And to say quite honestly, I can't believe that this method (.eps set to lighten) actually works, but it does!

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