Export to PDF Color Settings

It's a long time since I've prepared a color document for printing - the last time I was using ID CS - now I'm using CS4. So I want to make sure that I'm doing everything right.
All images originate from Photoshop, and have the CMYK icc profile for the press embedded. There is one grayscale image, in the Gamma 1.8 space.
There are some objects (text frames) that are filled with CMYK swatches, and the document itself is set up with the same CMYK profile as the images.
In the output tab of the Export PDF dialog, I'm tempted to use the following settings:
Color Conversion: No color conversion
Destination: -
Profile Inclusion Policy: Include All Profiles
Or should it be
Color Conversion:Convert to Destination
Destination: Document CMYK
Profile Inclusion Policy: Include All Profiles

If your printer wants profiles you need use their output CMYK profile as your working CMYK space, and either assign that profile to your ID doc and its objects or use it to make CMYK conversions.
Including CMYK profiles causes problems downstream only when they conflict with the destination profile use by the printer—if you have good communication with your printer there would be no reason to be using conflicting profiles.
If you decide not to include profiles make sure you convert to Document CMYK when you export. If you choose No Color Conversion and don't include profiles, there's the potential of having untagged RGB objects in the PDF, which may or may not separate correctly at output.

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