Selecting Pantone Equivalents of Process Colours

I've searched through the forums, and I haven't been able to find anything beside a passing mention covering this topic (but I could be missing the magic word in my search).
On a regular basis, we receive artwork from clients that, although pretty, has not been streamlined for our printing process (flexographic), and as such, we generally need to tweak most everything that comes in. One of the more unpleasurable tasks is selecting PMS swatches to replace process colours.
Currently, we either flip through the Pantone Solid to Process Guide to find a match, or try to find a match in Illustrator by colouring swatches on-screen with different PMS colours until we find the one closest to out process target (and then take a boo in the Solid to Process guide just to be safe).
I really hope someone can make me feel like a dolt by pointing out an easy and reliable way to do this. Much thanks.

In CS3 select the objects you want to get the nearest spot color match.
 
 Then go to Edit>Edit Color > Recolor Art in the center bottom right of the color sliders there is a swatch icon you can select and swatch library you have in the swatches folder including color books for say Pantone.
 
 That will do it. You can save it as a group or can have it recolor the art or both.
 
 
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