EPS files from CS5.5 to QuarkXPress 9

I am trying to help someone working in a PC-only environment.
Using InDesign CS5.5, we do Export as EPS and specify Level 2 (or 3, made no difference) PostScript, Grayscale and Binary.
If then create a new document in QuarkXPress 9, draw a picture box, do Get Picture and select the EPS file we just exported, it is seen as CMYK EPS instead of Grayscale EPS.
I don't know if the problem is in the export or in the import!
Has anyone run into anything like this?

If you have AI, open it up--or open the EPS in PhotoShop. Either one will tell you what the actual color values are.
In the image below, the colored alien was placed in ID and exported out as a gray EPS. Both were then placed in AI and PS and ... it didn't matter. Everything reported nothing but K values.
Take care, Mike

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