Losing Color Intensity

I am trying to provide an image to an ad company for printing. When I change the color mode from RGB to CMYK, I lose the beautiful intense blue of the sky. I have tried to get this intensity back through photo filters, curves, levels, saturation, variations, color balance, selective color, and the channel mixer to no avail. Can anyone give me some tips on this? (I freely admit that my solution will probably be found in some combination of the above!)
I am using PS CS2 on WXP xp2.
Thanks!
Susan

Susan,
here are some informations about sky blue:
http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/skyblue14072008.pdf
Color space for the images is sRGB.
In short: postcards and travel agency brochures are
showing often fully saturated dark blues which I didn't
ever encounter in real life.
Blue sky at a sunny day, over the haze of the horizon, is
rather light and, concerning the hue, between blue and
cyan. The doc contains color ranges in Lab instead of RGB.
A light saturated blue is not available in any CMYK space.
Try to tweak the RGB image and check often the appearance
in CMYK by View > Proof Colors and View > Gamut Warning,
using your preferred CMYK space.
The improved sky blue colors in my doc are all printable
by ISO Coated, eventually with tiny deviations.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

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