PDF with strangely placed items

Hellos!
I have a problem with my PDF files ... I am working on this book file of 530 something pages and whenever i created pdfs of the book, text frames will either be missing in places, or they will appear in places they are not actually in, but when i look at my original indesign file, everything is in place? anyone ever had this problem of funny alien objects just appearing in your pdf files? please help? I need to hand this over to the printers soon, and i can hardly have these aliens in my file like you can see in the image attached, the text frame with tel, mobile fax etc in the bottom right corner is supposed to sit where the phone number is ... very odd ...
thanks a lot in advance! hope you guys can help me out of this misery.

Thanks Eugene!
Another question though ... my file is an InDesign book file consisting of 16 chapters, if I export to IDML this will only work with the single chapter files, right? not with the book file. I have done my index in a seperate chapter within this bookfile with 850 some references, will all that get lost when i export my single chapters to IDML and create a new book with those exported IDML files?
sorry .. this is my first ever book project .. and from the way it's going ... i reckon it will be my last. such headaches ...

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