Printing Booklet, problem with gutter

I'm trying to print a 16 page PDF document from Acrobat Pro X as a booklet using the Manual Duplex workflow (Print front side, rotate printed pages and reinsert in printer, print backside in reverse order).
The original document is an InDesign 3.5" x 5.5" portrait. I am printing to letter sized paper, and want to end up with a 3.5" x 5.5" booklet when it is trimmed.
The finished printed pages are imposed correctly and I can fold my stack into a single-fold booklet and leaf through pages in order from front to back.
The problem is the pages do not butt at the gutter but are separated by a good inch and a half.
How do I get the pages to touch at the fold line?

Here is a followup to my original post:
Here is a link to a screen capture showing the Print dialog box.
Notice in the small thumbnail view of the spread that both pages are a considerable distance apart.
The actual distance should be a quarter of that.
http://www.margnat.com/tech/ManualDuplex.1.png
I have successfully created and printed manual duplex documents in the past where the pages print side-by-side, touching at the fold, so I’m puzzled as to what I did differently here. Might I have set something up in InDesign when I exported as PDF that might effect this?

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