Are there circumstances where proteins can ONLY be seen colocalizing under a confocal microscope and NOT under a standard wide field fluorescence microscope?
Did you try more than one widefield microskope? If not, think about chromatic shift. You should chrck this by using two structures where you know they colocalize as a control.
If you see coloc under CLSM and not under widefield, it smells like bleedthrough. This is very common when two colors are acquired simultaneously. Try sequential acquisition