White border around edge of pdf (not picture related)

I've been fumbling with this for days and can't figure it out.  I guess that means it's probably something really simple.
I'm using CS5 and am trying to create a book cover for self-publishing.
The artboard is set to 17.28" wide and 11" tall with .125 bleed.
I created a blue rectangle (no stroke) as a background to cover the artboard and the bleed so it measures at 17.53" wide (17.28"+.25") and 11.25" tall.
Theoritically that should work?  However, when I save as a pdf (or print to pdf), the document size is 17.53" wide and 11.25" tall, but there is a white gap around the top/bottom/right edge.
I've tried:
- making the rectangle larger than the bleed section
- making the artboard a little larger
- no stroke/with stroke around the rectangle (thinking it had something to do with what others have been experiencing with white lines)
- making sure smooth line art is selected
- a host of other things
.. but no change.
Image is attached, but may need to zoom in to see problem.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Hi Jacob,
Thanks for the response.
I tried your suggestions - no change.
It's a simple file with not a lot of complicated items, basically just three rectangles to which I was going to add text later for the titles, etc.
The width of the artboard takes into account the size of the spine, which is calculated for each book since they have different number of pages.
I've uploaded the file if you want to take a look at it as it doesn't make much sense to me. The file can be downloaded from here:
http://www.ezref.com/wp-content/uploads/Book%20Cover%20-%208.5%20x11.ai
Thanks for your time and help.

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