Batch Renaming with Bridge

Hi,
Well I've never posted in the Bridge forum, but here goes!
I work on a publication in which I have a long series of PDFs with the following names:
p-1.pdf
p-2.pdf
p-3.pdf
etc.
I won't go into the details of why they're named like this, but I use Bridge to rename them into the following format (required by my printer):
001PubName.pdf
002PubName.pdf
003PubName.pdf
etc.
The problem that I have is that if I have a long series of files (p-1 through p-200 for example), the Batch Rename process will only capture some of them.  It might do the first half (p-1 through p-100), and those will be renamed with the correct number.  Then, suddenly a few more pages will be named with something like p-565 (or other wrong number), then the last set will be left in their original p- names.
What I'm trying to find out is how Bridge renames these.  Meaning, what does it look for to choose the rename process?  Usually if I do these in batches of no more than 50, it will rename them correctly (meaning the new numbered name will match the previous file number (p-25.pdf becomes 025PubName.pdf for example).  But if I do a longer list, a lot of them will be messed up.
I eventually have to enlarge the thumbnails to their maximum size and compare the file name with the page numbers on every page (though that's still faster than manually renaming all the files).
Any ideas?  Or suggestions on doing this?
Thanks, Phyllis

phyllisj9 wrote:
Their download link is broken, but I'll see if I can find it on another site.
So it is!
I just googled "the rename" and picked cnet because they are well known.
You've probably found it by now.

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