Discmakers Project: Color Question

Hi,
Using Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 I'm wrapping up a project for a Discmakers digipac. My color management settings are synced...setting: North American General Purpose 2. All my linked images are 300 dpi. The photos were originally RGB then desaturated in Photoshop and given a sepia tone, then saved as CMYK as required by the printer. Everyting looks fine in both Adobe programs but the photos have a strong green tint in any other program. Actually, the same is true for any CMYK desaturated photo. Greyscale black and whites look fine.
My question is: when this goes to the printer will I get the colors I see in Illustrator or the green tinted ones?
I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Thanks.
This is a link to the Discmakers guide:
http://www.discmakers.com/templates/faq.asp

I'm guessing you'll get the color seen in Illustrator. Not all applications are color managed and preview images are unreliable at best. You should, for your own piece-of-mind, have the job contract proofed ( see a local reputable print shop ) before sending it off to the print vendor. You should also supply a contract proof along with the disk so that the print provider has something to match. Then, when the provider runs the file ( get their workflow specs before you have it proofed on your end ) through their prepress department's equipment, they can supply you with a matched proof of their own and, with any luck, they both match and it's off to the races.

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> anyways...
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