I didn't know you could use the breadcrumb token inside a container, I thought it was a skin only token.  Interesting.

You could handle all this in your skin.css alone.  Use the same class for all the breadcrumbs and give different wrapper classes to the containers based on what color you want used.  Then in skin.css you'd have:

.breadcrumb {your css here}
.wrapper1 .breadcrumb {your css here with a different color}

making sure the wrapper class setup with breadcrumb class  comes after the main breadcrumb class like above.  Then the cascade should work, and if needed, you can use the same wrapper again on other classes you might want differently styled for just that particular container.

Not sure why your method didn't work, other than perhaps the breadcrumb token is truly not meant to be included in a container. Or perhaps you need to assign different id's if you have multiple intances of the token on the same page, which could definitely cause a problem with them both having the same id.

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I guess this works with the same id because the container and the skin are not the same user control. Rick stated that might be the reason for this not working.

BTW, I also never realized you could use the breadcrumb in a container but there does not seem to be anything in code that prevents it.

It's using: PortalSettings.ActiveTab.BreadCrumbs

You should check the rendered HTML with firebug, or try to remove one of the two from the page and see if the other works.