Print PDF Pages quality not high enough

I'm pretty happy with using Aperture to design relatively simple photo books. Its great to stay in one tool. But I'm not happy with how it exports JPGs from the book I designed. Don't think its a problem with my automator workflow file either. I'm using a custom 10x10" theme and sending JPG's to Black River Imaging for book publishing, I'm not using Apple's books, so I have to get my designed book into JPGs, somewhow. So I modified the print pdf to jpg folder automator script to bump to 300 dpi, RGB, using the sRGB color space and a "best" quality. The pixel counts are coming out correct, ditto for color space, but the file size is too small and the sharpness just isn't there in the files.
I did an experiment where I exported the individual JPG images for a book page and brought them into Photoshop. Resized the images based on where they went into the page layout and re-implemented the page layout in Photoshop, saving as JPG-12 optimized. Results?
Aperture - 733 KB for a 10x10 300 dpi page
Photosho - 2.1MB, and yes, viewed at 100% obvious differences to detail.
Its a bummer. Making the photo books within Aperture is much, much easier. But I'm not happy with the "print PDF to JPG pages" flow.
Do I have any way of fixing this?

Screen capture of my Automator script. Notice I'm asking for 300 dpi. I'm getting 72. However, instead of 10" as I expect, I get 42.3", and this still equals the correct 3,000 pixels per side, so that is good. But why? And if that is messing up can I be sure I can trust the compression setting?
Image file at http://mercphoto.exposuremanager.com/scripts/expman.pl?rm=view_photo&photo_id=jp g-automator_13_2&dir=galleries/13/2&file=jpg-automator_full.jpg

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