Need to PRINT with PANTONE spot colors - PROBLEMS

Hello!
This is my first post here.
I am from Poland and I designed artwork for a 12" vinyl. It is going to be pressed in the US and so will be the cover get printed there.
This is my first abroad work... So far when i wanted to use Pantone for printing i prepared the artwork in CMYK and just noted (for the printer) which Pantone spot colors should be used. This is how it works here in Poland. But when i sent my artwork like this to the US printing plant - i got a reply that this is wrong and i need to prepare the files for spot color printing...
I prepared the artwork in Photoshop CS4 and i put it on a template for printing in InDesign CS4.
Meanwhile i got to know how to make new spot channels in Photoshop, but when i want to place that file on the template in InDesign - i get a message saying that i can only import RGB or CMYK files...
I Need Your help!

yeah, i knew that.
i think i sorted it out now.
i think my mistake was that i tried to import PSD files. But later on i saved them as EPS files i could import them to InDesign with the spot colrs.
We'll see what the printing plant says.
Should be good now.

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