How do I print front and back with two pages per sheet? (OSX Lion)

I can't find a simple solution to my situation...
I'm using Max OSX Lion 10.7.3 and Adobe Reader X 10.1.2.
I want print two PDF pages onto one printed sheet, and I want to print front and back. When I go to the print settings and select two pages per printed sheet, the sample window shows me what I'm looking for. But when I tell it to print odd only or even only, it changes the print selection. Here's what happens...
Let's say I have a PDF document that is 20 pages long. When I tell it to print two PDF pages per sheet, it shows me that the first pages printed will be PDF pages 1 and 2. When I tell it that I want it to print odd pages only, it tells me that the first printed page will contain PDF pages 1 and 3.
In other words, Adobe Reader wants to print the odd PDF pages instead of the odd pages of the printed document (PDF pages 1 and 2, then 5 and 6, then 9 and 10, so on).
So that I'm being clear...
This [ ] is a printed page. The numbers inside the brackets represent the page numbers in the PDF document...
What I want to print is this...
FRONT   || BACK
[1,2]    || [3,4]
[5,6]    || [7,8]
[9,10]   || [11,12]
[13,14] || [15,16]
[17,18] || [19,20]
What would end up printing is this...
FRONT   || BACK
[1,3]    || [2,4]
[5,7]    || [6,8]
[9,11]   || [10,12]
[13,15] || [14,16]
[17,19] || [18,20]
Aside from telling it exactly which PDF page numbers to print (this would be a taxing job because I'm working with a 273 page document), is there an easy and simple way to print how I'd like?

I would suggest to use Adobe Ilustrator. Also I get an error message when I try tp access the sample document.
You can download Illustrator using Adobe Creative download - http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator.html
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