Preflight to one color black

I'm struggling trying to figure this out. Hopefully a big brain can help me.
I am trying to get magazine ads ready using Preflight in Acrobat. The ads for this section of our mag are going to be Black and white (grayscale) PDFs. Most are registering as 4 plates, the odd one has spot colors. What I am trying to do is preflight the ads to convert all colors to 100K so they will be one plate.
Another question, if I manage to convert all color to 100K and then run the Magazine Ads preset in preflight will that keep the PDF as one plate or will it convert it to 4 color?
Suggestions? Advice? Input?
Thanks

Chris,
can you please provide me with such a prepared PDF? Please send to p.kleinheider [at] callassoftware.com
Preflight is capable to check for used colorants for almost all objects (CMYK images being the only one I am aware of that Preflight can not check for unused colorants)
Regards,
Peter

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