PDF versions in press quality documents

We assemble books out of chapter PDFs that we create with Acrobat X (and earlier versions, 8 & 9). We always select Press Quality when creating these PDFs. In the Properties, they are always listed as PDF 1.4 (which agrees with Adobe documentation of Press Quality PDFs). But when we combine these individual PDFs to form a complete book, the resulting PDF file always displays as PDF 1.6 on the Properties page. Is this a problem? We want our printer to get the best quality PDF for the job. (All PDFs are created with Distiller by selecting "Adobe PDF" as the printer from the authoring software. Composite PDFs are created within Acrobat X using the Insert Pages function.)

Ok, I have a little more information, but still no solution.  It appears that certain PDFs will print with the proper orientation, while others do not.  A file originally created in Acrobat 8 printed with my original Acrobat 8 settings in Acrobat X and produced a proper landscape orientation.  However, a document produced in Acrobat 5 with the same settings printed in Acrobat X still rotated 90 degrees.  Are there any differences in the settings of files created in these two different versions that could cause this change?
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