Indesign wrong Bleed Area in PDF

Hi,
I'm going to publish a book through a book-on-demand online service and I wanted some informations because I think there are problems with my Bleed Area in the PDF's exported from Indesign.
My book is about 190 pages in A4, so I set its dimensions to 210 mm x 297 mm, with a Bleed Area on each side of 3,175 mm as stated on the online website.
Since my background should extend on each side and I don't want white borders to appear on the page sides during the print, I extended the background to the bleed area, as the following picture (my facing pages master):
When I export my book I get a strange result. Basically some pages have the inner bleed, that should contain the background I extended, totally white. Others, instead, have the copy of a part of the beginning of the previous page. Like this picture:
This page is a new chapter, a new document of my indesign book. As you can see the bleed area on the left doesn't contains the background I extended but its white. Same happens with other pages, like the one of the chapter ending.
Next you find the image of a common page in my book, as you can see the bleed area is fulled with the beginning of the background of another page.
This is the PDF i get when exporting. I think something is wrong.
I really need a lot of help on this, since I put much efforts in this project I would like to understand what I'm doing wrong now!
Thanks a lot for any help!
Marcello   

Are you getting the white edge on every second page? Are you printing to Postscript and distilling, or printing direct to PDF, or Exporting the PFD?
Your exported PDF looks exactly as it should. On an inside bleed, the bleed area is the edge of the opposite page in the spread if one is present. I'm guessing you need the inside bleed for perfect binding, and you have two choices, in my opinion. First would be to split the spreads and extend the art into the bleed area (see InDesignSecrets » Blog Archive » Breaking Pages Apart to Bleed Off a Spine) and setting an inside bleed value. The other, probably easier, option for this document would be to set the inside bleed to 0, turn on layout adjustment, and then set the page width and inside margins wider by the amount of the inside bleed that you need. Add some manual crop marks, and a ruler guide to show you where the trim should really be.

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