Missing Topics in Printed Doc

I am losing my mind! I am trying to generate printed doc for
the sole purpose of sorting a bunch of pages in hard copy to
rethink the organization of one part of my projects. Ironically,
every time I generate the printed doc (i've done it about 20 times
so far), these pages are nowhere to be found! I've included them in
the TOC, I've moved them out of a book within a book, I've deleted
them from the TOC and added them to a book that is generated as a
chapter. I've renamed the book to remove non-alpha characters. I've
deleted the book and created a new book with a completely unrelated
name. NOTHING I do will get these pages to print. SO - I have 175
pp. document of the 175 pages that DONT need to be printed and I
can't for the life of me print the +/-20 pages that are the ones I
want in hard copy.

first, I am using RH version X5.0.2.
1. On your Project tab, all the way at the bottom, open the
Single Source Layouts directory. Double click on Printed
Documentation.
2. Set up your doc name, path, and build expression as
needed. Click on Next.
3. This next window is where you can select any or all topics
to include in the printed doc. It defaults, I believe, to all
topics and chapters. Just select each chapter or topic you do not
want and click on the left-pointing arrows to move these topics out
of the list on the right side of the window. Only the topics and
chapters listed in the right side (under chapter layout) will
print. This selection window works much like the Browse Sequencer
tool.
4. When all appropriate topics are excluded / included, click
on Next. In this window, you are establishing the sections of the
resulting doc - set up sections as needed. If you aren't publishing
this doc for distribution (just for yourself), I wouldn't worry too
much about this step. Click on Next.
5. The last step before the doc generates is to determine
which Styles set you will use - the styles you use in RH, or a Word
Style set. Again, since this is just for you, don't sweat it. I
just use the Project's CSS Styles (select this option from the menu
at the top of the window).
6. Click on Finish, let 'er rip, and see what comes out.

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I am using RH 7 and creating WebHelp. I am also trying to create a pdf-document with the same content as the WebHelp. For some reason, the contents I specify for the pdf-document are only partly included in the pdf-document.
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Thanks for your suggestions, I am afraid I have not found a solution yet. Outputting to Word gave the same problem.
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