Printing facing thumbnails in indesign cs3

I seem to be having trouble printing thumbnails with adobe indesign CS3 version 5.0.3.
My document is 72 pages long including covers, mainly consisting of placed raster images, the document size is 173.9 mb. My aim is to print a thumbnail version of my document with facing pages portrait on a3 pages preferably 10-12 spreads per sheet. This would enable me to study my document as an overview, allow me to present it to my colleagues as a hard copy for discussion and give me the opportunity to ***** the flow of the document as a finished piece.
Thumbnail printing under the print - setup option only allows thumbnail printing as page batches of 1x2 2x2 3x3 4x4 5x5 and so on. If anyone has found an alternative solution to my thumbnail printing problem I would appreciate it if they could share it with me.
n.b. My system requirements are, mac osx version 10.5.4, dual 2 ghz power pc G5 with 6gb ram. My printers are xerox workcentre 7335 & xerox workcentre pro C2128.
Also, thanks to Bob - Adobe Writer, for patience and forum user guidance.

I have created a template using a generic pdf that has the thumbnails
arranged how I want them using a generic link called thumbs.pdf. I
replace the thumbs.pdf with a LOW res copy of the document I'm working on.
See attached and then set something up like it, but suited for your needs.
http://www.chevako.net/panda/Archive.zip
Jay

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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:10:13 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Printing problems with InDesign CS3 with Mac OS 10.6.3
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