Shapes and color acting strangely

Hi,
Hope this finds you well.
I've been working in an illustrator document and an orange color I've been using has suddenly started doing a strange thing. Here is an example. I choose the color so it's in the color in the fill on the tools menu. If I draw a rectangle, it gives me a rectangle with that fill as the color just fine. However, if I try to switch it the color to the stroke so it's just the orange as a stroke and no fill it changes the rectangle to being filled with a dark pinkish/red color. When I switch it back it goes back to the orange fill just fine.
There are some other weird things like that happening too, although I can't remember them all right now. But they all involve that dark pinkish/red color.
Any idea what might be going on and how to resolve this?
I appreciate your time and look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Thanks.

Here is how it would work
Rectangle with stroke and two fills the orange on top
Here I fill the orange with a fill of none. The bottom fill shows through.

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