Contact Sheet, Photo Collage, or Photo Book?

Request help to better understand PSE6 capability and to identify the right option to use:
A. Contact Sheet Option
I have 138 pictures that I can print using "contact sheet" with landscape page setup and 6 pictures per page. I can separately select to include dates and captions. The result looks great! The issue is that I can not save the collection of contact sheets as a PDF or as any kind of file that I can electronically send to anyone, or recall, edit, or print again.
B. Photo Book Option.
The photo book option puts one picture on one page and 4 on the next. Never six pictures on one page. And I also have to fiddle with frame size, etc to compensate for portait vs lanscape pictures. It also will not let me include dates. It can, however, be saved as a PDF.
C. The photo collage option
The photo collage option lets you select between 21 picture/page options. However none of them include 4 or 6 pictures per page, and half of them are for angled picture placements. It also will not include dates. but it can be saved as a PDF.
What I think I really want is option A (Contact Sheet) with the ability to PDF or save the resultant set of contact sheets in one file.
Am I understanding the problem and the capability right?
I'm using PSE6 with a one year old Dell Vostro 1510 with Vista and 4 meg memory.
Thanks for your guidance,
Ron

You can try using one of the free pdf makers such as PDF reDirect. (google to find many choices).
When you install one of these you get a pdf maker as a printer option. Simply choose the pdf maker as your printer when you hit print and you will get a pdf.

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