No matter what I do, all my PDFs come out as RGB, instead of CMYK.

I am running Quark 6.5 with Acrobat version 4.0 Professional's PDFwriter on a PC, under Windows XP.
I can only pake PDFs from my Print menu, by selecting, Adobe PDFwriter, AdobePS Acrobat Distiller or Adobe PDF Converter.
When I attempt to use Export, it doesn't make PDFs at all. So I have to use Print.
I have spent three days sending PDFs to the printing plant and, no matter what settings I adjust, the pre-press expert keeps on telling me thay're all arriving with RGB separation. Now he tells me it's even failing to embed fonts. So it's getting worse.
Would somebody please help? This is killing me.

Have you checked your settings in Preferences?
PDF  check "Directly to PDF" rather than the other choice "Save ps for distilling later , or whatever it is, can't remember the exact wording for that other choice.
When you then select Export to PDF you should have an options button, another window will come up with several tabs. 
In one of the tabs you can select Composite and CMYK.
This will create a CMYK PDF.
I believe at one time Quark used something called Jaws to create PDFs.
In 6.5 the presets are limited and don't have any of the PDF/x settings.
Thank God I was able to avoid using Quark (a program stuck in a 1980's time warp) very much.

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