Bullets change characters when printing

I'm having a weird bullet issue. I'm using InDesign CS6 and have a paragraph style with bullets that looks fine on screen, fine as a PDF, and fine when I print in color. But when I print in black and white all of the bullets change to the number 9. It doesn't matter if I print from the file or from the PDF, the bullets all come out as 9s. Anyone have anything like this ever happen?

How do I do that? I did run Yasu but had the same problem afterwards. I'm using Font Agent Pro for my font management.

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Edited to add: Since my issue was never about how I could print a successful image (I knew I could simply change the color profile settings), but rather about how to make sure that customers would get consistent and high quality print outputs of my digital images, this seems like the best approach.
I don't think I will every really know exactly why I am now getting color shifts in the "photo enhance" mode when I did not have this problem a couple months ago - applying the same methods of creating artwork. I was concerned that I was saving/exporting using incorrect or mismatched color settings or something of that nature. However, since I went through the process of making my color spaces the same for everything, and I still have issue, clearly that is not the culprit. The only thing I can do to solve the problem and it is a straightforward solution anyway -> is to educate the buyer on how to print successfully (don't use photo enhance! ha ha).
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