Wrong page numbers on PDF export (ID CS5.5)

The Export to PDF out of a book document (with 12 single documents in it) results in wrong pagination (30, 31, 33, 31, 35, 31 ...). Direct Export out of the same single document is right. I cannot see any difference between the single docs, but the phenomen is only in some parts of the book.
What is the thing about this? Did anybody have similar effects?
Thanks for any idea!
Carsten
MacBookPro Core Duo
Snow Leopard
InDesign CS 5.5 (Design Premium Collection)

I had started to look at this over the weekend (thanks, Sarah, for sending along the files), and didn't get a chance to come back to it.
Looking at it now, there are several interesting things.
I think the first is that if I use Sarah's book file, I see the problem. But if I create my own book file from the constitutent documents, I do not see the problem.
Tentative conclusion is that this is an issue with the book file, not with the documents.
The next observation is that the two book files, Sarah's and Mine, are not very different. At least by some metrics. While in a literal sense, 10195/69632 bytes do differ (15%), if I look at ASCII text, the story is a bit different. Running the "strings" command on both of them to extract the alphanumeric-looking stuff in the files, and then diffing them, there are only 8 differences (technically 8 "hunks" as reported by diff). They are:
1. "FgPM" at the beginning instead of "FgPM" in mine.
2. com.apple.print.PageFormat.PMAdjustedPageRect is a real number 0.0 in Sarah's, and an integer 0 in mine.
3. com.apple.print.ticket.stateFlag's <inteer>0</integer> has a linebreak across it (or something) in mine
4. com.apple.print.PaperInfo.PMUnadjustedPageRect< is a real number 0.0 in Sarah's and an integer 0 in mine.
5. com.apple.print.PrintSettings.PMColorSyncProfileID is 1294 for Sarah and 1580 for me.
6. another linebreak issue with a second rference to com.apple.print.ticket.stateFlag.
7.  My default printer name and the fact that its an HP Laserjet 8150 is substitued for Sarah's C280 and the fact that it is or has a Fiery E10 50-45C-KM PS Color Server1.1 along
8. The pathname to the constituent files within the book is different, and mine does not have a reference to Process Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black that Sarah's does.
That's it.
Not totally sure what to make of it, really. I suppose I would suggest trying to change your default printer before File > New Book and see if you can find a way to make that matter...

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