Crop makrs for professional printers

Hi,
I recently landed a job with someone who needs a designer. I always played around with photoshop and got quite good at it, but I never had to print what I made. I was told that I needed to make bleeds and crop makrs and deliver the design as a PDF to the printer.
I am a bit lost. The posters I designed are 8.5 by 11. I added on .25 inches to the lenght and width to allow for the bleed, then desinged the poster. I am lost however with what to do for the crop marks. Are they simply the Guide Lines? Those don't show up when I view the file as a PDF, and the image shows up as 8.75 by 11.25, and if that gets printed the image will shrink slightly to fit the page.
I know it's sort of an open-ended question, I apologize. But how do I go about makin crop marks and delivering those to the printers in PDF form.
I'm afraid that what I deliver will end up being printed with an unwanted white boarder, and there are over a thausand copies set to print. I really don't want to mess this up!
Thank you in advance for any advice.

Mr.Met
I think i have a simple way forexaple he is using photoshop lets say a Biz Card which stardard size 9x5 what i do in PS i will make the size 9.2x5.2, When the card is ready Place in Indesign draw a box of no stroke of 9x5 ofcourse the points will be the Bleed Centre that box with Align Pallete into the card then go to the windows in Cs4/Automation and In Cs 5 Utilities Script panel your can use VBS/Javascript Look up for Cropmarks Double Click when the drawn Box is Selected your Ready to Go.
Imran

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