Image Stitches after exporting to PDF

Hi guys,
I have exported PDF documents from InDesign in virtually all standards and option configurations. The output would sometimes look good but upon closer inspection white lines would appear across images; these images are divided into (seemingly) random sections.
I have done some research and this seems to be a problem with the transparency flattener. Having used all standards (PDF 1.3 through PDF 1.7) this cannot be the problem. All standards starting 1.4 do not use the transparency flattener as far as I know. Also, most pages of the document do not use transparency, shadow, blending modes or any effects for that matter. The problem occurs with even the smallest and simplest images.
The InDesign documents I export are in fact 11X17 tabloid versions of different 4-page brochures. I created a tabloid-sized page and imported each of the 4 pages to the tabloid page. The problem occurs only when exporting these tabloid documents to PDF. The original imported InDesign documents do not have that problem - I made sure.
At first, the problem seemed to be with importing InDesign documents, but this isn't so. I exported the original InDesign documents to EPS and imported those to the Tabloid page - the same thing happens.
I have spent hours trying to figure this out and eventually gave up and printed everything with the lines. By disabling anti-aliasing I could get rid of the lines on-screen. I haven't tried but don't think it'd do anything in print.
Can anyone recommend a solution or at least an idea? I'm willing to try anything as this is happening with every 11X17 tabloid brochure that I create. At the moment the only thing I can think of is copying and pasting the original content to the 11X17 tabloid document, but this would be time consuming and impractical, especially when master pages exist - and this is also assuming that the problem really is with placing InDesign/EPS documents.
Thank you,
Tom.

You say the flattener isn't active, but eps doesn't support transparency so those pages got flattened before you placed them.
As Mike is alluding, there was a bug in the first release of CS3 that sometimes caused stitching in placed ID files, so the problem may well be at import, rather than export.
Peter

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