Unable to override printer settings anymore!

I use IDCS2 and a Konica Minolta Magicolor 2450 printer.
My problem is that I can no longer override the default printer settings from InDesign!
To give an example: I have a document in color, that I need to print in grayscale using ONLY the black toner of the printer. Okay, so before, I just went to the printer settings from within InDesign and set the color settings to grayscale and hit OK. The document was indeed printed in grayscale, using only the black toner.
Now, I can't save that setting by pressing OK in the printer settings dialog. Because what happens, is that it's set back to the default setting which is "color". It doesn't matter whether I try to save the setting in the printer dialog and chosing that setting, because that will also be reset for unknown reason.
Neither does it matter if I make all the necessary settings and save it inside InDesign in its own print dialog.
So in my case, I cannot even print in grayscale with only the black toner, from InDesign CS2 anymore. Neither can I print with other temporary changes.
This has been working perfectly well before, but now, suddenly it doesn't.
Also, this is only a problem in InDesign. Saving temporary changes (for the document which is opened in a software) works just fine in all other programs, including Photoshop, Illustrator, ...or whatever else it may be, Excel or whatever. InDesign is the only program where I cannot save printer settings temporarily anymore.
Anyone who have experienced this problem before? What was your solution?
Martin

Found a solution! HOWEVER, it's not what have been proposed.
Peter, I followed your instructions for trashing my prefs. I started up InDesign and it was like when I first started it with options at the beginning etc. - I knew the prefs were indeed cleared. So I opened up my document to try printing with the black toner only by selecting grayscale. I opened up the settings, chose grayscale in the color options and hit OK. I went back to the same options but still the settings have been reset to the default! I was disappointed since this meant I had to reinstall InD - something I really don't like to do.
I moved back the old prefs to the correct folder and started up InD - now with the old prefs again. I once again tried to print with grayscale, but nothing has changed.
So just for fun, I tried if there was the same problem when printing with "Adobe PDF" (print to a PDF file) instead of printing with the physical printer. So in the InDesign printer settings dialog, I chose "Adobe PDF" instead of "KONICA MINOLTA mc2450 PS". Then in Adobe PDF's own print dialog I chose "black and white" instead of "color" and hit OK. Then I went back there again to see if the changes stuck, or if they was reset like with the Konica Minolta printer.
So what happened? The settings DID stuck!!!
So I am wondering, does this have to do with the Konica Minolta printer??? It shouldn't since it works well in other programs, including other Adobe programs!
So for fun and out of frustration, I chose the default "KONICA MINOLTA mc2450 PS" instead of "Adobe PDF" in the InDesign printer dialog and then went to the printers own settings to set it to grayscale as usual. I hit OK whereupon I went back to the printers own settings to check if the changes had stuck.
What do I see? The settings HAD stuck! What on earth?!?!?!?!
After a couple of more tries, I now understood, that what needs to be done, is that one have to actively chose the printer before continuing to any settings.
Bottom line - and the solution:
Somehow, even when the correct printer is selected, InDesign somehow doesn't recognize the pre-defined printer and can therefore not make the necessary settings to remain.
What needs to be done is to re-select the correct printer, by first selecting something else (another printer or "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" or whatever) then again selecting the printer of your choice, and then InDesign will recognize the correct printer.
Personally, I think this problem comes up when one have re-installed the printer with the same name as before. And since the re-installed printer have the same name/title as the last installed one (since it IS the same printer, only re-installed for some reason), InDesign CAN HAVE that printer pre-selected in its own printer dialog. HOWEVER, something have probably changed since that re-install, like some hidden printer-ID numbers or some other random ID number that is always assigned to a printer when its installed, resulting in InDesign not recognizing the printer itself because of the new random printer ID number (or whatever it may be), even though the correct printer (by name) is selected.
What do you think?
In any way, I hope this will help others in the same situation, with the same problem!
Martin

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