Printing as Black and White

We recently upgraded to X, and have noticed that the Black and White setting for Grayscale is gone. I looked around in the forums and found the suggestion to "Convert to black and white in the Fixups" but my Fixup menu does not have that option- I have options to convert to CMYK and Grayscale, but not Black and White.
We need this option to run film negatives- any Dot Gain percentage as the grayscale setting gives us a dot pattern. Is there any way to get this option back? Otherwise we're kind of screwed. I also tried to install Acrobat 9.3.0, and the Black and White option is also missing on there, even though it's available in 9.5.0 on my other Mac (10.5.8)
Using a Mac, Lion 10.7.3, Acrobat 10.1.1
thanks!
-val-

Hi Val,
Try choosing File > Print.  Click the 'Printer' buttom at the bottom. Change the dropdown from 'Layout' to 'Quality & Media'.  Check the grayscale button here.
-David

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