InDesign PDF Presets Bug

Hello everyone,
I have noted this problem since cs5 version came out but I am reporting it now. Well, here is the thing: if I have some multi page or single page document in InDesign and I want to export it in some of Adobe PDF Presets for printing for example like [PDF/X - 4:2008] as usual I get the progress how much of the pages are exported and when progress dialog is gone when I go to the location of the exported PDF i get 0kb PDF file. So there is nothing in it and when I try to open it it reports error. After few minutes passed I see size of the PDF is changed and exported PDF is there now and it can be opened. So basically after export progress is finished at start you won't have any data in exported PDF and after couple of minutes passed it will fill that PDF with exported data. So does any of you have experienced such behavior? I think this is a bug and this behavior is tested and confirmed on Mac OS Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and Windows 7 64bit.
Best regards,
Ratko Asanovic

Here's a few things I wished the Background Task did.
1. The Indicator in the Control be clickable to open the panel (else add a background tasks button where the other buttons are Guide Screen Mode and Arrange Documents)
2. The list of Background Tasks performed remained and you can open the PDF from the background task panel. The point of the background panel is to allow you to work while pdfs are being generated. Well if I'm working I don't want a PDF jumping up when the option is clicked in the settings to open the pdf. Instead I'd prefer the Background Panel icon to turn Green or something when PDFs are in the Background Panel. That would give me a visual indicator that I have PDFs created that need to be looked at in Acrobat. I can then open the panel via the shortcut on the control bar and commence checking my PDFs created that day.
It just falls a little short for me at the moment.

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