Print Booklet - Spreads Missing from PDF

I am exporting a 123 page book to a PDF containing 16 page signatures to be perfect bound. I go to File > Print Booklet and set my signature size to 16 and select "2-up Perfect Bound." The print preview is acurate to what I want my final PDF to look like. I choose "Print" and when the printing progress bar is about 1/8 to 1/4 finished - Acrobat launches and my "finished" PDF only has three spreads - while InDesign continues to print the pdf. If I uncheck "View Adobe PDF Results" under "Printing Preferences" and wait for the PDF to be completed before manually launching Acrobat, I have identical results. I have also tried printing 16 pages at a time to have one document per 16 page signature. Same results.
Any ideas?
an acrobat setting or an InDesign setting?
Hmmm....

Thank you for the suggestions, adding pages for even multiples of 16 didn't work unfortunately, I actually did try that prior to posting.
I erased my preferences, which seemed to make a difference initially, but ultimately failed also - print progress bar got to about 3/4 before the problem occurred where it had previously only gone to about 1/8 or 1/4.
For today, my solution was CS3. Luckily I still had it installed and was able to print the booklet to pdf using it, but still can't get it to work via CS4.

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