Newbie needs help with color profiles

somewhat new to digital photography and send most of my stuff to local lab (Costco) when needing to print. I have a mac, with Leopard, and use Lightroom to export to jpgs and upload to the lab site.
Simple enough, but I noticed their site had the icc's available to download. My intent is for lightroom to rendor and export the photos the way their lab will print them.
Why bother to really develop the picture to my liking if it is just going to print differently.
I dont use PS and not sure how I can, if at all, utilize the color profiles the lab provides in LR.
Sorry if I am not making sense, any and all help is appreciated from you really smart people:)
Thanks

See http://lagemaat.blogspot.com/2007/12/mildly-lightroom-workflow-for-printing.html
You can now also use the
LR/mogrify plugin to convert to any profile you want. Much quicker than the photoshop route.
Note that there is no reason to do this if you do not hardware calibrate your monitor. Otherwise sending them sRGB is more than good enough. On a Mac, make absolutely sure that you at least software calibrate your monitor. See http://www.computer-darkroom.com/colorsync-display/colorsync_1.htm
Doing this will already improve it quite a bit, but there is no substitute for hardware calibration.

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