PDF I take to my printer is showing grayscale pages as color

The PDF in question:
http://wndw.net/download/WNDW_Standard.pdf
most notably towards the back there are quite a few B&W photos and they show as color when they load the PDF in our print center.
so what is the best way to strip the color from those pages?
Yesterday I used the "Convert Colors" command through the entire book on the pages that I want to print as grayscale. I followed an Adobe tutorial online, but basically under "Conversion Attributes > Conversion Profile" I chose "Gray Gamma 1.8" and then under "Output Intent" I checked "Convert Colors to Output Intent," changed the profile there to "Gray Gamma 1.8," then checked "Preserve Black" under "Convert Options" and then I would set my page range. I did this for all the page ranges in the book that I wanted as B&W.
I then saved this PDF and took it to the printer, but the pages I thought I had converted still showed up as color.
any advice? Did I possibly do something wrong in the Convert Colors process??

I'm trying the "Preflight > Convert to grayscale." When I open one of the pages in Photoshop after doing this, the page is RGB and not grayscale.
is there a place in Acrobat to see what a specific page's color profile is? If a PDF is grayscale and I open the "Ink Manager," shouldn't the CMY values for density be 0? Here's what I'm seeing after running "Preflight > grayscale":
http://www.gregburgh.com/random/ink.jpg
or maybe I'm not interpreting Ink Manager correctly.

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