Flattening adjustment layers prior to converting modes

Hi all,
I have a document with a load of layers and scattered throughout are adjustment layers. I need to get the document from RGB to CMYK.
Is there an easy way to have the adjustment layers applied to all the underlying layers so I can convert without flattening anything other than the adjustment layers???
I hope that question made sense.
Thanks,
Bob

It may be easiest to finish any editing you need to do then flatten the image than to try to flatten the adjustment layers.
You could also save 2 versions, 1 RGB, 1 CMYK and should you need to edit down the road, edit the RGB then flatten convert and overwrite the CMYK version.

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How to Apply adjustment layers to multiple layers that have different blending modes and keep the colours the same as the adjusment done?
I work in Animation painting Backgrounds. My files are sometimes upwards to 200+ layers.
I will use adjustment layers to quickly balance colours and constrast on top of those many many layers.
The only way that I know of how to apply adjustment layers it to every single layer ( by applying I mean I need to get rid of the adjustment layers because we cant use them in production but i need the new colours be applied to all layers underneath ) in a psd is to manually do it By duplicating the adjusment layer 200+ times and then merging each layer to one of those adjustment layers so that that layer can take the adjustment layers effect permanently.
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https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3408266/ball%20layers.jpg
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3408266/ball.psd
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However, The issue is that layer 6 and layer 4 are both set to mutiply and this screws up the colour once i apply the adjustment layers to each layer manually...
How can i apply my adjustment layers to a file like this with some layers being set to multiply while keeping the layers exactly the same configuration and The new colour taking efffect exactly how i looks before i apply the adjustment layers?
Now the simple solution is to merge the multiply layers to the layer that it affects HOWEVER I NEED those multiply layers to be seperate!
I'm assuming what I want to do is impossible? Hope this isnt confusing. As far as i know its impossible to do what I want it to do. but just wanted to ask and see.
I would REALLY REALLY love to talk to a adobe programmer/ technician/pro working at adobe about this. Theres just no way to get in touch with anyone... =(
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Sure... if you want to put it that way. Either way its not the desirable outcome.
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works great if all your layers are set to normal though..    But I really need to keep shadow layers seperately and be able to adjust on the fly aswell as apply those adjusment to all my layers.
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but surely the black and white one does? or am i wrong there?
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