Trim Marks Won't Print in Illustrator CS 3

Even though I checkmark Print > Marks & Bleed > Trim Marks they still don't print. I set Type > Roman and Weight > .5pt. Does anybody have any suggestions so I can get these to print?

Yes, to overisized, thanks. In fact I just created a landscape document 8.5 x 11 and simply drew a 5.5 x 8.5 rectangle, then Object >  Crop Area > Make and tried to print it as above. Even though the Crop marks are clearly visible and well within the document's boundaries they would not print. In fact, with just those crop marks on the document, when I try to print, I get a Print error: The pages selected to print are all blank. So I drew an object and just the object printed, no crop marks.
Some variable somewhere has gotten reset as I've never had this problem in the past. Can someone please help?

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