Blank Spread Using Print Booklet

I am outputting a 48 page booklet using the Print Booklet feature in InDesign CC. Oddly, one spread is printing without the content. Pages 3 and 46 are blank.
I know they are being output, since the crop marks do appear on the spread. The content, however, is left out.
This occurs regardless of the printer. The same thing occurs when I send the output to the PDF printer. The crop marks are there, but otherwise the page is blank.
These pages, 3 and 46, print fine when I output them individually. They're also fine when I output the file to a PDF. It is just the print booklet feature that is loosing the page content.
Does anyone have an idea what is going on here?
Thanks

I debugged it by removing items from the two pages until I found what was triggering the error. It was an compound vector item. Once I removed that, the page prints fine.

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Didn't work. I tried 2, 7, Spread saddle stitched and got 2 on one page and 7 on another page.
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I have no idea why this is happening, but it is driving me batty and makes zero sense and I need
I had a 30+ page document that was correctly booklet printing and added chapter start pages through the doc. I did not renumber or start sections on these when adding them, they are in the same section as most of the pages... Basically the document goes like this:
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ps I attached 2 screen shots. 1 of my current designer spread and one of the printer spread that I'm supposed to use to print it out.

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When I used "Print Booklet" and choose PS file / PPD Adobe, my PDF (with distiller) misses just the top and left bleed in my pdf. It was blank.
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This is an archaic way of making a PDF.
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The printer should do imposing, supply as pages 1-end in sequence, do not impose yourself.
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