Placed Multipage PDF crop to preset

I'm repeating the same actions over and over with many, many files into many, many documents and thought I'd ask to see if anyone could help to speed me up by removing one repetative step.
I'm placing multipage PDFs into an indesign document.
For example:
page 1 of multipage PDF goes on page 13 of the INDD
page 2 of multipage PDF goes on page 14 of the INDD
page 3 of multipage PDF goes on page 15 of the INDD
page 4 of multipage PDF goes on page 16 of the INDD
Every single time I go to place the document I have to select the page to place (this seems reasonable) but also the crop to, which is always "bounding box" whereas I always want "Media".
Is there any way to fix this option to media?
I don't want to split the PDFs into separate pages as I don't have all the fonts and by splitting them the fonts are no longer embedded. Also, each of the documents has varying different fonts so chasing them all down would be an expensive nightmare.
I'd be interested to hear how other forum members would tackle such a task!

Peter Spier wrote:
It shouldn't be changing like that. Try trashing the prefs. See Replace Your Preferences
I've been working on this issue and trashing prefs hasn't fixed it. The other problem I was experiencing is also back (show baseline grid shortcut not working).
I've tried the following:
Manual trash of prefs
Trash prefs using the cmd-alt-ctrl-shift starup option
Removed every utility I could find, rebooted and trashed prefs again
Interested to hear if there are any utilities known to mess with InDesign

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Well, first of all, I'm not the best at finding the right/proper keywords
when it comes to searching. I searched "place PDF" and got me to the first
topic you mentioned. I have no patience in going through and reading
through all the list of results. That's why I like going through FORUM. I
know I'll get my answer there somehow and in the meantime while waiting
for someone to respond I am productive with other jobs. That's all.
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Bernice de Guzman-Wilson
CDG Marcom, Bio-Rad Laboratories
510.741.4670
Bob Bringhurst - Adobe <[email protected]>
06/19/2009 11:02 PM
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Subject
Placing a PDF in InDesign
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