Illustrator CS6 / CC and previous Pantone color books

Hi all, I've understood that Illustrator CS6 / CC has the new Pantone+ color books, those color books doesn't have CMYK values so the default of rIllustrator CS6 / CC is to use the Lab values when I add a Pantone swatches to my document.  One of my customers, that is a print industry, need to have the old Pantone with CMYK values to maintain the same color rendition on old and continuative jobs. Adobe says that I can load the old Pantone color books from CS5 and change the swatches option so that Illustrator use the CMYK values: http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/pantone-plus.html  The problem is that this doesn't work for me and for my customer, even if I change the swatches option Illustrator continue to load only the Lab values from the older CS5 Pantone color books... anyone of you has a solution?

I am running into the same issue.  Both links suggested did not work for me.  In a document I created in CS4 (the old document) and opened in CC there is a square with the color Pantone 519U in which it converts to C:67% M:100% Y:30% K:10%.  These are the numbers to be expected.  If I copy the square that is 519U in the old document and paste it in the same old document the color remains the same.
I create a new document in CC (the new document).  From the old document I copy the Pantone 519U square and paste it in the new document.  The resulting square in the new document is a washed out purple.  The new document square converts to C:57.27% M:68.83% Y:35.06% K:13.06%.
Again I followed Workaround 1 in the link.  I obtained the old Pantone Libraries from my CS4 machine so it is not a library issue.  I have also created a new Document Profile where I set the Spot Color to be "Use CMYK values from the manufacturer's process books".  I am seeing the same problem before and after the workaround.

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