Transparency preview - color faded

Hi,
I used PSD images (based on a transparent layer) and placed in a Indesign document. I used to export to PDF without no problems to preview in CS2. But now, when I open the document in Acrobat professional 8 (CS3) the color of the same tranparent images look faded, or pale. If I open the same document in Adobe Reader 7, no problem, colors are gloss and perfect.
Is there a setting that I have to setup to automatically see the right colors?
All my Adobe suite is synchronized for color settings.
Thank you!!

Just wanted to let you know you are not alone. I've been experiencing the same color issues with multi-page CMYK PDFs with transparency created in InDesign CS3 on Acrobat 8 (I'm running the latest version 8.1.2 on 10.4.11).
Any page that has transparency on it has a huge color shift (It almost looks like it has been converted to RGB). Pages without transparent objects print fine. The same PDF in Acrobat 7 will print with the correct colors on both types of pages.
The PDFs were exported from InDesign CS3 with the Transparency Blend Space set to CMYK and the PDF set to "Press Quality." All images in the document were in CMYK. The PDFs were printed on a Xerox Phaser 7400. Same print settings used in both Acrobat 7 & 8.

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