Unfortunately my boss won't spend the $$$ on PitStop which means figuring it out the old way, or the painful way. I also have to trap all files manually, at least InDesign does trapping of it's own elements. Anyway, I've notice more grey text out of MSO-2010 than in previous versions. I use the default Preflight BW setting to make my MS PDFs greyscale and this created black text in the past.

The particular project I was working on that brought me to this site (and it's still in bindery as I type this) is a native Publisher file  with 5 color pages interspersed throughout the 118 page file. Which means getting the file set up correctly so that the Konica 6500 will only charge a black click for BW pages and color for the color pages. Using the built-in Preflight setting in Acrobat produces grey text and most customers don't notice or don't care, but there's the boss    He doesn't want to spend the $$ but wants me to have the headache. He's a nice guy.

I'll have to peruse the rest of the threads and see what else is going on in here. Back to rocking The Turd.

DigitalCrapShoveler is a great name, BTW.

WOW! Hey you guys! What a welcome!   
Yes, I am Sabrina, been Polishing Turds since 1992....er feeling the pain of other people's CRAPPY FILES for too long.
I've done Stinkos  , Commersh Printing and Small print shops. Which is where I am now.
The Grande IT Dept™ Prepress, Old Lady On the Hill, What's a Vector File, Ask Her She Knows, Fiery Slave, Heidi, Creo, Scitex person.
Yes I drink, a LOT on the weekends. (shhhhhhh!)

I needed a place to find answers to M$ headaches because the headaches change with each version. ARGHHHH!
And looks like I can share my frustration here too.   

Thank you guys for this thread/information.    Which also made me register...