A Book Export to PDF bug?

I'm using InDesign CS 5.5 7.5.3 with Mac OS X 10.8.5. I'm running a book with, eventually, 16 documents. I wanted to create a PDF of book chapters that were ready for review. I selected a range of book chapters in the interface of the book's .indb file and chose Export Selected Documents to PDF. The usual control panels opened, I made the appropriate selections, and the PDF of the selected chapters seemed to be created.
I later looked at the PDF and found that 1) it included some documents that had NOT been selected in the .epub documents panel; 2) it left OUT some that had been selected; 3) it tossed in documents out of order.
So ... is there a serious bug in this InDesign process? Can I not count on it anymore without a lot of double-checking/putting together PDFs individually and merging them, etc.?
Has this bug been encountered in CS 6 or InDesign CC?

Well, that may be what I have to do. However, this file was just a quick file for review--not something I want to spend a lot of time on, as I would for a file in preparation to send to the printer. I've actually used this option quite a lot with, before now, no problems--even when I've reviewed every page before I sent the final file to the printer. However, if InDesign cannot keep proper track of what's selected in its interface panes, then we have some problems. And although CS 5.5 is not the current version, bugs (features) have a way of hanging around (or not being prioritized for fixing by project management), so I'm curious to know whether others have encountered this problem, or if it seems to be a very rare oddity.

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Wow, thank you so much for quick replies!
Ok ill try and explain more.
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I have a 66 page book created in the book module..
When exporting to PDF the export stops with the error:
"An error occurred while saving the book.
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The same occurs (at the same book page) when exporting to BLURB
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