Spot Color in photoshop

I have a customer that does a front and back newsletter in photoshop.
They use 100% black and 100% magenta and save it as a .psd. (They don't have no other layout programs)
How can I put it in an IndesignCS2 or quark document and separate it into 2 colors?
Your prompt response is appreciated!
Thank you, Marie

They weren't Ann. There were two images that were 4c gray. Everything else was either only on the magenta or black channel.
I converted the two 4c process images to 1 channel grayscale and sent the file back to Marie.
I haven't heard back from Marie, but I assume the job has gone to print.
alan

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