Black and White Adjustments

I scanned a couple of black and white photos, opened the TIF and cut and paste them into new documents. However when I try to use the Black and White adjustment in CS3 its greyed out. The image is Gray and 8-bit. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but I can't work out what it is.
Thanks for any help! :)
-=Tim=-

RGB color images are often best converted to monochrome by the Channel Mixer. That's always my first tool. Some images fair better in Black & White, but all too often that filter leaves telltale signs like halos at the edge of color ranges, and often the overall tonality is better from Channel Mixer. CMYK images are almost always better off converted to RGB first before taking them down to monochrome. The channel splitting from the black generation almost always throws the process off with less than complimentary results.

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