HELP - Trim marks in bleed area won't print

Using Illustrator CS3 I have imposed an item 8up on the artboard with manually created trim and score lines within the bleed area. For some reason the lines will not print.
- I have checked the attributes and the lines have not been selected as non-printing items.
- I have created the lines with the line tool in registration colour and placed them 2mm away from the edge of the artboard.
- In the print setup I checked the page trim marks on.
- In the print setup I set the bleed to 5mm and when that did not show the manual trim lines I even tried 10mm.
- When the document prints the only trim marks that appear are the page size crop marks applied during print setup.
- The objects overlapping from the artboard into the bleed area print but the trim lines that do not touch the artboard won't print.
I have previously been using CS2 and this method has been working fine until I upgraded to CS3. Has anything changed? Why is this no longer working? Is there a preference somewhere that tells illustrator to not print items that don't touch the artboard?
Can someone please help as this is causing me lots of problems.

Thanks for your quick response and link.
While I was searching for a solution to this problem I actually posted on that site with another solution for importing files into InDesign with bleed. (Anonymous said... 2/15/2008 1:42 AM)
I do find your post helpful for printing illustration files placed in Indesign. However is there no solution to printing directly from illustrator apart from increasing the document size?
Is the bug only recent to CS3? I could print directly from Illustrator CS2 and the lines and bleed would print.
If I group all of the trim / score lines would they print then?
I don't understand why this has changed. How painful.

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