Book Page Numbering Broken - InDesign 5.5

I've been experiencing some very persistent and reproducible errors with book numbering in InDesign 5.5.
Any feedback or ideas would be very welcome.
Platform: OS X Lion (relatively clean install), InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2, no plugins on test environment
Reproducible condition:
Create a new book, enable automatic page numbering (continue from previous section).
Create four new documents, to each add ten pages. Ensure automatic numbering is on.
Add each of these documents to the book.
Save the book.
Update page numbering for the book.
Result:
Documents do not display correct book page numbers in the book palette. They show document, not book, relative numbering. Each document displays (1-10) in the book palette.
When viewing the documents themselves, the first two document page number as expected: (1-10) & (11-20). This is also the result when exporting to PDF.
However documents 3 & 4 in the book take page numbers (11-20) as well, as though they were each positioned second in the book.
Tested:
I've tried alternative automatic page numbering options for the book (start on odd/even) with no change. UPDATE: on a 20 document book there are some sections that seem to restart as "pairs", so number restarts randomly throughout the book. Same document and book numbering options as described here.
I've tested with different numbers of documents, different page counts.
I do update the page numbering after each attempt, no change.
Message was edited by: EthanJA - split up screenshot
Note about large document test added.

lilia@, thanks for the ideas, keep them coming...! Regarding these two, I've tried both already, no joy. Reordering document 3 to document 2 does result in it being re page numbered, but the "new" third document loses it's page numbers again (i.e. the book seems to be maintaining "pairs" of docs and reordering just changes which document is being re numbered).
Have also added using the plus button on the panel, same. Thanks for the ideas though.
Fwiw, this problem shows up on both existing books and new test books with fresh test docs. I've also tried the borderline voodoo method of exporting to IDML and reopening/saving the docs. Pretty much at my wits end. Well, a little more wit left, but not much.

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