Margins problem when printing to PDF (Pages '09 v4.0.3 build 766)

Hi,
I don't know if this is connected to the latest Mac OS X v10.6.4 update, but some of my machines exhibit a very curious behaviour.
+ multiple pages A4 document
+ choose File > Print, click on "Save as PDF", under the PDF button
++ set pages 6 & 7 to print
++ set 2 pages per spread, so as to have Pages shrink the A4 document to somewhat A5, and have the two pages side-by-side on the same sheet
++ save the PDF
Then, when I open the PDF with Preview, the margins are all wrong (i.e. too big, there's too much white running around).
And from Preview's inspector, I can tell that the Page Size is set to US Letter, although in Pages both the document size AND the Printing Format are set to A4.
The most curious part of the story is that my MacPro, my work MacBook Pro 13 and a white MacBook exhibit the problem, whereas my personal iMac 27" DOES NOT.
And they are all running Mac OS X v10.6.4, with ALL the most recent updates, and the exact same version of Pages!!!
I suspect that something has been changed in a framework somewhere, but I cannot figure out what it is...
Any idea is welcome!
Thanks,
K2r

I can do the same in TextEdit (although it's even more painful to control the margins!!).
My problem is not that Pages won't put pages on one sheet; It's that the generated PDF does not respect the sheet physical size (A4 vs. US Letter), thus adding wider margins all around the document.

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