Quality of pdfs and colour separations for printing purposes

Having created a 44 page document in Pages, I have exported it as a pdf file so that it can be commercially printed as an A5 magazine. I have used the 'best' option in exporting it as a pdf, but have no idea if that function conforms to PDF-X1A specifications. Is there any documentation that would define the pdf standards within Pages?
The magazine is going to be two colour (headers/footers/callouts etc to be blue). So would the Print: ColorSync (then save as a pdf) option solve the problem that one printer noted:
"I have looked at the pdf you have sent and all seems ok with the quality but the colours don't split to the two separations (i.e blue and black) only CMYK (which is for 4 colour printing). If this does become a print job then we might have to look and see if we can get the pdf's to be the correct colour split."
And would this also ensure that the black is a true black and not a CMYK mixture that might not print correctly in the end?
iMac 4.1 Mac OS X (10.4.4) MacBook 1.1; iPod Shuffle

Yes, this possibly could be a solution, but I did not want to have to buy another piece of software (ie Adobe Acrobat) to produce the newsletter. I like the control that I have over the magazine layout in Pages, but need to be able to ensure that the pdf file I create is of the appropriate quality. Exporting to 'Best' is probably okay, but as I am viewing the pdf using Preview I have little idea how the pdf will look to others. I have read posts that have had problems with the quality of the pdfs exported from Pages when opened with a Windows machine or using Acrobat, so I am trying to ensure that I don't experience similar problems.
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