CS3 Booklet Printing Staple Problem

Hi all,
Here's my problem... I have an 8 page document in Indesign CS3, with all pages letter size. I'm using Print Booklet to print this to a Xerox 7760 printer onto tabloid size paper which is printing on both sides of each sheet (duplexing) and then folded in half and stapled at the spine (therefore uses two tabloid pages). I have no problems whatsoever printing a single copy of the entire booklet. It prints just fine and puts my individual pages in the correct order. My problem is that when I need to print MULTIPLE copies of the same booklet at once, what it does is print let's say 5 copies correctly but staples them together as ONE thick booklet instead of 5 booklets. Does that make sense? The booklets are in the right order, its just one set of staples holding everything together instead of 5 indiviual sets. I've tried a number of settings but I can't figure out what I am doing incorrectly.
FYI I'm on a Mac using OSX 10.5.8 and appear to have the latest Xerox drivers.I am also trying to avoid making this into a PDF and printing out of Acrobat (haven't tried it yet but may go that route temporarily if all else fails) because I find when I print multiple copies of multipage documents out of Acrobat, it resends each page for every copy making it a horribly looooong process. I am not having this problem within InDesign. I also found that the images didn't look at sharp as printing within ID as well.
Any help would be very appreciated! I'm just scratching my head over this one. Thanks in advance!
Rayven

Hi Guy,
It's a known issue with Indesign CS3,same problem with Acrobat 8 fixed with 9 (sets stappled together)..Try to use the imposition from the driver and not from the booklet printing,correct with the version 5.0.2 but another problem with the first page rotated with the 5.0.4 so moving to CS4 is the best choice.
Good luck.

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I'm very frustrated. I can't figure out how to accomplish booklet printing in Word or Pages. Pages often does things simply that Word fights tooth and nail, but I can't figure this one out.
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