Create an US Letter sized PDF from a smaller PDF

I have PDFs created in Illustrator, ranging in size from 2X2 to 4X7  and I want to be able to open them in a 8.5 X 11 PDF document. If I could do this consistently I would then be able to add the 8.5 X 11 Background needed for the finished document. I want to be able to open these PDFs into the 8.5 X 11 size to avoid cutting and pasting them into the 8.5 X 11 size PDF because copy and past in Acrobat often destroys transparency. Also, I'm in CS3 so I can't really add a second Artboard to archive this.
Mac OSX 10.5.8
Adobe CS3

If you crop pages so that there is no extra whitespace in fact there is a checkbox for that on the Crp menu that opens.
Then when you go to print choose :
Click on Page scaling and set to desired. make sure auto rotate and center is checked it will add the proper amount of white space right,left,top,bottom.
(Please note information is given by an Experienced User of Acrobat. I am not an employee of Adobe.)

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