Dotted Strokes not exporting to pdf (InDesign CS3).

I'm producing a booklet in CS3 where I've used a lot of dotted strokes (both as decorative lines, and as outlines to background panels beneath text). When I export to pdf, I'm finding that all the spreads that contain these elements come up blank with error messages. If I change the stroke type to solid, there is no problem. Is this a bug with the dotted stroke feature, or anything else? Any fixes or suggestions would be great to hear.

Thanks Peter. Yup, I even sent it to my regular printer and they get the issue too. Moving the strokes to different layers and unchecking compression doesn't help either. I have actually had this issue before on another project, and had to workaround by redoing the dotted lines in illustrator and importing them into the InDesign file as pdfs. But this time the artwork has a ton of the dotted lines, too many to redraw.

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