How can I stop Flattening from converting to ICC color?

Our new printer requires PDFs to be submitted as PDF version 1.3 (Acrobat 4). In order to use this setting when we "Save as optimized" we must choose the "Transparency" flattening setting. But every option I've tried for flattening keeps converting the colors to ICC profiles, and the printer also refuses to accept files with ICC profile colors. I can't find any place to select this or not select it as an option, but every option within the Transparency dialog seems to result in ICC profiles. How do I save a flattened PDF from Acrobat without converting the colors to ICC? (These are files submitted by advertisers to our publication, so I have no control over the creation of the original PDF. I just need to re-save these in a format which Quad Graphics will accept, which means flattened and at PDF version 1.3)
[Acrobat Pro 10, Macintosh, OS X 10.6.8]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. DeviceCMYK or even "none" still result in ICC colors when I preflight the file afterwards. I can't find any setting for flattening the file that doesn't also somehow convert colors. Is there any way to flatten the PDF and have it leave the colors completely untouched? Or maybe some way to re-save the file after flattening to strip the ICC profiles back out of the document? I suspect I might be doing something "wrong" that can be fixed somehow.
If I convert text to outline I can open the file in Illustrator and just re-save it, and all the ICC warnings go away. What might Illustrator be doing that Acrobat isn't? I can go through this workaround if necessary, but I prefer to do this in a single step from within Acrobat, without getting extra applications involved, if at all possible.

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