Crop Settings

Hello,
Once a week I need to crop about twenty 2-page PDFs (exported from Indesign CS3) into 4 pages using Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro. Here's my current process per PDF:
1. Set the Left Margin Control to 8.5 and then click All in the Page Range and then save.
2. Hit control Z and then do the right side and save that as a separate file ("XXXX-2").
3. Then I insert one file into the other to save as the final 4 page file.
My question is is there a way to save these crop settings and/or at least crop once to create the 4 pages rather than twice and creating 2 different files?
(Sorry if I didn't explain this clearly)
Thanks for your help.
Jeff
(Edit) I just downloaded a free program called PDF Split Merge which almost did what I need but it seems to only split the PDF horizontally rather than vertically down the middle.

I'm actually exporting it from ID and need a PDF that's not split for the printer but then need to split it into 4 pages for the web. I've attached 2 PDF's so you can see how it exports from ID and the other is after all of the cropping.
Thanks

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64GB is a pretty huge Temp file for Photoshop. That will happen if you're working on HUGE files, or if you leave Photoshop open and you're working on the same image for a LONG time.
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