Either you can see what I'm doing, or you too have gone through these learning pains. Well it worked since I opened up PS agian, and now it did the same thing. No dice.
I am more used to sending files to an EFI rip and dealing with things in that program. Which has some powerful features. But now that I have a 44" vs 24" printer, I would need to upgrade for lots of money, which I just cant do now, or not willing to give it that much value. I think EFI was an extra $1000, and maybe $1800 for a 44" version? If I was making money on prints, perhaps I would get it. But these days magazines hardly require a proof, and the volume has gone so low.
Maybe for my own work, I will get Q Image, but not supporting CMYK or PDF files for other works is a bummer.