Changing color spaces in print dialogue

I have an INDD CS4 on Mac OS 10.5.8 document that was created for US Web Coated. All the images have US Web coated embedded in them. We are printing it sheetfed on an uncoated sheet so I'm trying to print Composite CMYK and then picking the US Sheetfed Uncoated printer profile in the Color Management tab. I check the Preserve CMYK Numbers option knowing that I do not want the black text to convert to a process build. In short the images are not being converted. They still have a total ink of 300% in the black areas. If I convert them in PS the total ink reduces to 260 which is what I'm after, as well as a tad more dot gain compensation.
If I uncheck the Preserve CMYK Numbers option the images convert but so does the text. I've double checked to make sure the images have the Web Coated profile embedded, which is supposed to trigger the conversion when INDD sees that it's different from my printer profile (Sheetfed Uncoated).
If I export PDF directly from INDD they convert but so does the text.
If I print postscript with Leave Colors Unchanged picked in the output tab and then set Distiller to do the conversion, it does not work unless I uncheck the Preserve CMYK Numbers option. Which gives me black type built in process
I've tried every option I can think of and cannot get the images to convert and the type to pass through unchanged.
I could go through and convert all the images in PS but I'm really looking for a way to do it at print time since this scenario comes up all the time.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Clark
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What's interesting in all this is that once the document is built it's hardwired so even after changing the Color Settings to Preserve Embedded placing new images in that document still does not preserve the embedded profiles.
When a new document is now created after changing that setting then ID honors the embedded profile in placed images, and you can see which profile is embedded in the Link Info sheet that expands below the Links palette. There should actually be an ICC profile name there rather than Document CMYK.
Wow.
Thanks for the help.
Clark

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