Export as .tiff w/ embedded ICC profile support

Hello-
I usually hang out in the Color Management forums but thought this would be a better place to ask my question.  I am trying to determine what the oldest version of Illustrator supports the Export as .tiff and allow for profiles to be embedded in the .tiff file.  Any help would be much appreciated.  I am trying to avoid having to find install source for Illy 7.0, 8.0 etc. 
Best Regards,
Bryan

This gets better and better, Bryan.
Here is a screen shot of the TIFF Options dialog in AI 8 running on Mac OS Classic.
No embed option, just as with the Win version, however...
The resulting TIFF opened in Photoshop with an embedded profile -- in this case U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2, which is the printer profile setting in my AI 8 Mac.
I repeated the experiment in AI 8 Win, just to make sure. Sure enough, no embedded profile!
Yow.

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