Problem with colorized grayscale TIFF printing as solid color fill

I have a grayscale TIFF that was created in PSD CS5, placed into an AI CS5 file and then colorized with a PMS color. The resulting effect on screen is correct, but when I go to print, it prints a solid (100%) fill of the PMS where the TIFF image should be. I have double and triple checked to make sure the TIFF is grayscale, and I have also played around with various Transparency Flattening settings in AI (both in the file, and in the print window). Nothing seems to work. I even tried a work-around by creating the TIFF as a monotone PMS in PSD, and again it places properly in AI and looks good up until printing when it outputs as a solid 100% PMS. The grayscale TIFF prints correctly from AI if it's NOT colorized, but the minute I add color, it prints as a solid fill. The monotone PMS TIFF never prints correctly from AI. I'm out of good ideas (or any ideas, frankly).
Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong? Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Make sure you are not placing the image into a rectangle, similar to InDesign image placement. The .tiff should be placed as a single element. Then, select just the .tiff and assign a fill to it.

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