Printing issue in Illustrator

Hey all. One of my users is having an issue whenever she prints a multi page document in illustrator (usually on 11x17). Prior to printing, each page of the document is rotated from portrait to landscape, and then the document is saved. Once printed, the first page of the document is correct, but all of the subsequent pages are oriented for portrait, and of course this leaves half of the page cut off. The only things we've tried so far have been changing settings within the print dialog (selecting certain pages and page layout) without a change or fix. I'm not wanting to waste paper, but I'd love to find a fix that doesn't involve throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Does anyone have an answer for this? Thanks!
  -Woody
(tested issue Adobe CS3 on intel Macs running both 10.5.8 and 10.6.2)

Why don't you do it the other way and not rotate to landscape. Just leave it as portrait. The printer doesn't care.

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