Acrobat fixup to make spots black

In my workflow I like to set single color press jobs in black, that way if the spot color changes I don't have to mess with changing my file over and over, and also, I'm an old horse and this is the way I've always done it. (not a good reason, but a large part of why I do it this way.) I'm creating a profile for one color documents that will print to our press. One of the things I'd like it to check for is whether or not there are spot colors and black applied and if so I want it to convert the spot to black. Is there a fixup in Acrobat 9 for the Mac that will remap a spot color to black? I don't want it to convert to grayscale, because if say a yellow spot has been used at 100% I want it to remain 100% when converted to black. Not the percentage I would get if converting it to grayscale. I've looked under all the color conversion stuff I can think of, but I can't find anything. My concern is that if I am working with a 1 color job, there will be both black and a spot color in it. I can easily have it check that there is only one spot, but if there's one spot and black I have room to get bit by it. I know I can manually check it with the preview panel, but I'd like it to be handled in the preflight. Or I guess I could use the correct spot, but then I'd need to find a fixup that will convert the black ink to a spot ink.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much for your advice and help. I do have pitstop, and I looked at that, but the interface is a little intimidating. I had some downtime so I was trying to learn some new workflow tools, but as usual, once I started trying to educate myself there was a flood of rush work, and I probably won't be able to revisit this for at least a week. Which is irritating to me, because I was really pretty excited about figuring out the preflighting.
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