In CS2 for XP Pro on Ricoh 811 Printer, Miscounting Color Pages

We are using a Ricoh Aficio SP C811DN to print booklets composed in InDesign CS2 4.0.5 for Windows. The booklets are black and white interior with a color cover. Although the interior pages have no color content, the printer counts every sheet of the document as a color print (for which we pay much more per our lease agreement).
When queried, Ricoh insists the problem is InDesign telling the printer that the entire document is color, rather than sending the color/black & white attribute on a page-by-page basis. Some of our mixed K/color documents (but not all), when made into a PDF and then printed from Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.8, are counted properly by the printer.
Does anyone know how to manage the attribute in InDesign that Ricoh claims is causing the miscount?
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Dan Gregory

Case Closed for Now...
I've just made another document with the same specifications (booklet with color cover and K interior) and, out of InDesign, the Ricoh printer is counting properly. I have no idea why this one worked and the last did not. The last document that had this issue I had to convert to two separate PDFs (cover and interior) and then merge the two in Acrobat Pro. That counted properly even when the InDesign version did not. But because of my workflow I'm trying to cut out any extraneous steps. I would still recommend people steer clear of this model Ricoh, particularly with the booklet finisher -- it has been nothing but a fickle pain from day 1 and definitely not a machine for a busy office.
Thanks everyone for responding, and if anyone knows the answer to the initial question (is there a way to have InDesign mark individual pages with color or K attributes separately) I'd still like to hear.

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