Default Black swatch in 4 colour mix-aaargh!

How do I get CS3 Illustrator to have the default BLACK swatch as just 100% black only and not a mix of cmyk?
Everytime I start a new project it defaults to wrong black and has caught me out a few times. Is there a way to have Illustrator startup with the correct black swatch?

No I am not selecting the registration swatch. No, no scripts used to create a new doc. And either setup from CMYK or Print to create a new document has the default black swatch as a mix of cmyk and not pure 100k only. I am talking about the "Default" colour swatch called "black". Second from registration colour. When I create a new doc, and have the blank page I click on the "colour" pallette and click the stroke to bring it to the front (with the white fill) and it displays the colour as a black mixed in fractions of cmyk- completely useless! It has been a pain for us as text and borders etc needs to be set only in black and not a mix. Why has adobe done this is beyond me. Annoying to say the least. Perhaps its because we here use a international version and not one for the States?? Its the only straw we can clutch to.....and it happens on all 4 macs here! never on any previous versions of Illustrator either. We do not do any work in RGB so its not set in the wrong colour mode. I have been using Illustrator for at least 5 years so am no raw beginner.:) Thanks for your suggestions but they seemingly do not apply in this case. At wits end now, we are considering scrapping it and going back to earlier versions. aaargh, another "update" that makes things worse...

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