Problems with DCS files & Illustrator CS3.

I'm a graphic artist in a screenprinting shop who has been presented with a problem I can't figure out the answer to. I have been using the VueRite Spot Process software for simulated process separations for over a year now. It works great and I was able to just place the DCS file into my Illustrator document using the Place option in the file menu. It would preserve all my spot colors, and I could make my simulated process separations in Illustrator with no problems.
But out of nowhere, all of a sudden it is giving me an error when I try to place the DCS file.
The error I get when trying to Place the DCS file in my Illustrator file says verbatim: "DCS EPS files cannot be opened or embedded. Please place this file using the Link option". No matter what I do now, I cannot get these DCS files into Illustrator, which is posing a bit of a problem as you might imagine.
Maybe I'm just overlooking something vitally important here, but I don't recall changing anything from when I was able to Place the DCS files into Illustrator. It makes no sense!
If anyone can offer any valuable advice I would be most grateful.
Thanks,
LeAnn

Leaving the file as a grayscale PSD file with no 'background' image works well enough. The spot channels are retained and I can embed the image in the sep file. The amount of time I was spending waiting on Illy to process all the channels for DCS files at 5000x3800p at 7-10 colors deep was unbelievable. Because we had an older Aspect RIP, we were 'group think' limited to believing what worked for the older unit was the best way for the new Harlequin, and what couldn't be done in AI10 couldn't be done in CS3/4. We were so sure it didn't work we never tried it. A few days on the forums and some snarkiness from Wade we had a better solution and workflow and file management has improved 10 fold. I guess the point I'm trying to make is if you can get away from using DCS files, do it. Having made this shift, I've cut my wait time tremendously.
For the PSD file, you have to leave the color mode intact, you can un-assign the CMYK values for output.
You'll note the PSD file is half the size of the DCS file, there's no degradation in separations quality and the memory management is much improved. Smaller files, better performance...yadda yadda.
2 cents. Here's an example set. Both the PSD and DCS (from same file) placed in Illy, side by side there's no comparison.
http://www.h3lx.net/farkimages/For_Forums/
and then there's a bit of good info in this
Separate photoshop spot color channels in Illustrator? (Updated)

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