InDesign 5.5 crashes when generating PDF from book file

I hope someone can help!
My employer has agreed to upgrade from CS3 to CS5.5 and I will receive the install disks next week. In the meantime, I downloaded the trial version of CS 5.5 Design Premium and installed only Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat. I kept CS3 on my system.
My problem is with InDesign5.5. I can generate a PDF of a single page, but I cannot do the same for a multi-page document (10 or so files) from the book window. InDesign immediately crashes (unexpected close message) but doesn't close until I force quit the application. When both CS3 and CS5.5 were on my machine, I was having the same problem even with CS3.
I removed CS5.5, but still had the same problem with CS3. Tried reinstalling CS3, but continued to have the same problem. Removed CS3 and re-downloaded CS5.5. Same problem. Removed CS5.5 again and completed a fresh install of CS3. This finally worked to allow me to use CS3 successfully again.
However, I need to be able to work with newer InDesign files that have been created in ID5.5 and can't do this without installing the new disks that arrive next week.
What can be the problem?
OS: Windows XP Professional 2002, SP 3
Computer: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9600, 2.80 GHz
Memory: 3.48 GB of RAM
Video card: 512 MB NVIDIA Quadro RX 2700M
Thank you!
Jenny

Yes, I would try to create a new master document and import the separate files. Even if you have saved all files to CS5.5 spec, there might still be some lingering meta data from the previous version and a fresh import might at least reveal such conflicts or ideally provide a clean slate by dismissing this outdated legacy stuff on import. If you are happy with CS5.5 and everything works, you can get rid of CS3, but I recommend to keep it around, even if you don't use it actively (maening löeave it installed, only deactivate it). Especially the CS3 installer is a fragile creature and a uninstall gone wrong might cause you more trouble than just letting it catch dust on your harddrive. See this article and the other ones related to it on my site for some considerations.
Mylenium

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