InDesign printing a booklet

How do I print a 6 x 8 inch booklet (32 pages ) on 8.5 x 11 paper? The back and front text are not aligned. They are off slightly.

Thanks, Mike. I tried exporting to postscript and then pdf. Alignment nearly perfect! BUT, the text on opposite sides is upside down!
Here's what I am doing:
1. Indesign file 8 x 6 in pages (each large page broken into two 4 x 6 pages as booklet)
2. I go to Print Booklet and in setup window I have 2-up saddle stitch with 0.0625 creep and margins set to Automatic fit.
3. I go to Print settings and in that window, setup has landscape orientation, page position-centered, and set printer for postscript file. Under ppd I select my printer (yes, Peter, it is an inkjet HP 6500 E709).
4.I press OK, then the window changes to originl print window and I press "print" and it saves as a ps file.
5. Now I go to that saved ps file and click "print"
6. In that print window I do two things: 1. I select 2-sided short-edge binding. 2. I just select two-sided printing no binding designation.
7. in the first print, I get correct text orientation, but it is not aligned back to front.
8. in the second print I get near perfect alignement but the text is unsipde down on back to front.
whew.. I think Ive made this way too complicated... and for nothing--I can't get it right!

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