PDF Export settings in InDesign (color)

Hi,
I was wondering which colour management settings to use when I export an InDesign CS3 document to a pdf (for press output).
This is the situation. I create an InDesign document in cmyk-working space X (in this case Fogra27 (Europe Prepress)). I add a few photos (prepared in Photoshop and in Photoshop converted to cmyk-working space X again). Illustrator files are also natively created in the same cmyk-space X.
When I export this to pdf I use the following color output setting:
color conversion: no color conversion
Profile inclusion policy: Include all profiles.
This way, I think, the pdf embeds all profiles and does no conversion. If I send it to a printing shop that uses colour management itself, things should work out fine. Am I right in thinking this?
Cheers,
johan

In theory all should be well, if you are happy with the consequences
of profile-to-profile conversion on CMYK.
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