Grayscale pdf output from Illustrator (?)

Some of my real estate clients want me to do grayscale versions of their flyers in addition to the color version sometimes. Is there a way to take a cmyk pdf that was output from Illustrator (complete with vectors and images, etc) and output to a new grayscale pdf correctly? There seems to be no way to do that in Illustrator aside from editing them within the app (not the best way). Illustrator does a bad job with converting embedded/linked cmyk bitmap images to grayscale...they end up over-saturated and look incorrect.
Converting all vectors is easy with Ai CS3's Live Color, so no worries there. I'm just looking for an easy automated way to do this from the cmyk Ai file.

Mr. Met wrote:
I thought that only applied to CS4 and/or snow leopard thing. I have CS3/OS 10.4.11 and have no problems printing to postscript.
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