Missing items in PDF export

Strangest thing started happening today. A fairly complicated document –lots of transparency effects– refuses to neither export anything more than the bottom layer objects NOR transfer anything else to Photoshop via copy/paste. Anything that is on top of something else is missing. I have to say I'm baffled.
This far CS5 has been very reliable when it comes to exporting PDF.
Anybody experienced anything like this?
My CS5 sits on a Mac Powerbook Pro.

I bet you think I've ignored you for the last few hours. Actually, I've been fighting with your file most of the day. First ID froze trying to update the link to the large elephant with the dark background, so I figured I'd force a r-write of all th elinns by opening in Photoshop and saving as tiff if they were .psd, and .psd if they ere tive, then doing another save as back to the original format. That solved the first freeze problem.
I have yet to successfully export a PDF, though, either in the background or the forground. I don't mean the PDF is missing stuff, I mean I can't even get a PDF to export. I reduced the resolution on the images to have 2/3 of the current effective resolution -- I think you would have more than you'd need for a display of this size even at 200 ppi effective, but still no luck. I'm trying a forground export at the moment, but it seems to be stalled again and the last time it gave me an out of memory error after about 15 minutes like this.
If this one fails I'm going to delete the complex vector stuff from the background. My gut feeling is that's what's overwhelming ID and placing an Illustrator gaphic might work better. (just got the failure).

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Attachments:
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