Rich black in Reader 9?

Every document I print from Adobe Acrobat Reader 9 comes out with rich black text.  If I "Let the printer determine colors" the text in the PDF is printed in accurate black.  Other people do not seem to have this issue.  Apparently the default Acrobat Color Management being used on my system has rich black set as the default.   Is there any way to change this?  I would like to use the Acrobat Color Management, but I do not want rich blacks.  I want accurate blacks.  There must be a setting in the CMM, but I can't even locate the CMM.  Any help would be appreciated.

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