Pantone colours

Hi All. I have an image which opens in illustrator and has an RGB preview.
I need to print in CMYK, but when I convert the colours add strange percentages to the colour ie 17.65% etc.
The image has a set colour Pantone in a separate sheet, but bares no resemblance to the breakdown colour.
If I put the Pantone colour into Photoshop and Illustrator I get slightly different CMYK breakdowns.
How do I know which program is giving me the correct breakdown and is there a quick way of linking everything up so we are singing off the same hymn sheet?
For instance
Pantone Hexachrome Black M in PS CS5 is C74/M58/Y58/B57
Pantone Hexachrome Black M in iLL CS5 is C1/M1/Y/B100
Have I set something up wrong?
Thanks

This is what you should be doing.
The color settings in both programs should be the same.
the origianl should be converted to cmyk and you should be adding the spot colors once you have converted the image to cmyk. I make a note here you should probably add the spot color in Illustrator. ( id not recall a reason why one would create a shape that requires a spot color that needed to be added to thte image itself the only reason I know that one would use a spot color within an image file is if the it was a monotone, duotone, tritone etc image.
But that is besides the point
you should have the image in CMYK mode once you decide to use it for print and then apply any spot colors to it. Bad idea to do this in RGB and the convert to CMYK.
then you should of course make certain when placing it in Illustrator you are placing it in a CMYK Illustraotr document and make certain it has the same profile as the image. If the color settings are the same then it should be the case but double check.
then things will be as they should be.
But once you have a mismatched profile egtting things to match are not going to be easy so make sure from the start.

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