Digital BW, The Print

Greetings!  Longtime lurker, first time poster.  You guys are great,
and I've found the resources from the group very helpful time and again.

I'm an experienced analog printer who just made a big jump into the
digital world.  Recently sold a car, so the spending cash found it's
way to my local compusa :).

Anyhoo, I'm a PC user who shoots exclusively on 35mm Nikons.  I bought
a Nikon Coolscan 4000 and an Epson 2200 for my digital darkroom.  Like
most others, IU use photoshop.  Now I'm trying to grok color
management, more specifically ICC (or is it ICM?  what's the
difference?) color profiles.  I ran through the adobe gamma wizard in
my Win2K control panel to make sure my monitor was accurate, and to
generate a profile.  I did this, but now I'm not sure at which phase
of my workflow to apply it.

1) Scan on nikon cs 4000.  No gain adjustment, no auto-exposure, 14bit
RGB scan.  Level adjustments to be done in PS.

2) Do I immediately apply my monitor profile to the image?  I would
think that this would make my future changes relative to the monitor
profile.  Is this correct?

3) Adjust levels, crop, and darkroom fun.

4) Adjust DPI/image size, print to the 2200.  Now when I do this, do I
use my monitor profile as the source, or would that be
double-profiling?  If not, what do I use for the source profile?  The
target profile is the Epson 2200 that came with it, but I suspect I
should be using a paper/ink specific profile.  Is this correct?

Is this a complete enough workflow?  I feel like I must be missing
some steps, but that could just be freshman uncertainty...

Thanks again...