Digital BW, The Print

All I can say is think carefully about recommending the no colour management
option.  My understanding is the embedded profile is not stripped away it is
just ignored.  Also, how many people start with Elements and then migrate to
the full CS2 product?  I've no idea but I'll bet you that colour management
is going to become a lot more pervasive very shortly with Microsoft finally
getting its act together on the subject and bringing it to regular users.
When Internet Explorer and Word, Powerpoint and Excel documents are finally
colour managed (oh what a great sigh of relief) people will come into
contact with the subject much more often.  I agree GG2.2 (by virtue of Adobe
RGB ) is likely the most broadly used greyspace.  As for "unknown profiles"
I'm not sure what you are encountering.  But even "newbie" users will need
to come to grips with the colour management chain from input device
(profile) to their working space (good to cut these down) to their output
space (a printer profile for each printer and media combination).  For
anyone reasonably serious about printing in colour these are "week 1"
lessons.  In reality, all we are doing now with B&W is catching up to the
well-established workflow of a colour printer.  I would argue that "good
practice" is one where these - colour vs B&W - are well aligned such that
they appear relatively seamless to the newbie.  There is no need to repeat
the wealth of tutorials on basic colour management that already exist on the
net.  Really all that is required is to explain its application in a B&W
world and highlight any differences.  Anyway, food for thought...

PS: if anyone wants a beginners tutorial to colour management in CS (perhaps
what IS missing is a similar tutorial for Elements users....) I recommend
the material on Ian Lyons' site:

http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps8_colour/ps8_1.htm