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Default page breaks auto-inserted and pages renumbered when going to print

Word 2003, SP2.

This doc is 105 pgs. There are 16 pages of front matter that are numbered in
lowercase roman numerals, and then pages 1-88 (all pages use same layout; no
left/right). There are 8 tables, 38 figures (some inserted files, some Word
art, some both), a TOC, a list of figures and list of tables, and an index.
There are a lot of reference fields and manually inserted breaks.

When sent to print to make a PDF (both Adobe PDF and PS printer drivers were
tried), the front matter numbering mysteriously changes to be all page 19,
and breaks (both section and page) are inserted before some reference fields,
ruining pagination (from 1-88 to 1-94).

I've tried working only in Normal view with background pagination turned
off, but as soon as Print is selected, the view changes to Print view, the
breaks inserted (in exactly the same positions every time), and the "iii"
pages turned to "19"s.

Often printing these docs (oh, there's more than one doc based on the same
file) also hangs Word.

I'll soon be moving these docs to a master doc set up, and modularizing the
content for better single-sourcing and outputting to HTML, but in the
meantime, I need to release at least one PDF.

help, while I still have hair!