Why don't Gradients from InDesign copy into Illustrator

Hello, I was wondering if anyone call me why I can't copy a rectangle with a gradient from Indesign into Illustrator. The rectangle copies over, but it becomes colorless....what happened to my gradient? I can copy and paste solid color rectangle from Indesign to Illustrator, but why not a gradient?
Thanks a lot

The implementations are different?!
Mylenium

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for some reason when I copy and paste an object with a gradient from indesign to Illustrator, the object becomes colorless....What happened to the gradient? I can copy and paste a solid colored object from Indesign to illustrator (and for some reason then, when I copy and paste an object with a gradient from illustrator to Indesign, it acts like a "placed" image....what's that about????)
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screen capture of the letterhead. Since I posted, I sent a test pdf to
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