Adobe PDF Printer crashes since Update to 10.4.6 (Intel)

When I try to print to the Adobe PDF Printer (Acrobat Pro 7.07) the system freezes constantly; I can then only succesfully reboot into the single user mode. Complete optimization AND cache cleaning has to be performed then (I use Onyx 1.7); otherwise the MacBook Pro would crash sooner or later when booting into the multi user mode.
I replaced the /System/Library/Fonts-Folder with the Fonts-Folder from the installation disk and deleted the home/Library/Fonts and /Library/Fonts-folder with no effect at all. Deleting my home-folder did not help either. Reinstallation of Adobe Acrobat didn´t change anything. A fresh install (keeping my home folder and the system settings) was also a useless effort.
Do you have any suggestions, please ?

It seems to me, I´ve got nothing from Adobe in my Startup-Folder:
/System/Library/Startupitems:
AppleShare
Apache
Disks
IFCStart
SNMP
Metadata
IPServices
NFS
NIS
NetworkTime
AppServices
FibreChannel
PrintingServices
RemoteDesktopAgent
CrashReporter
AuthServer
/Library/StartupItems:
Qmaster
Parallels *)
M-Audio Firmware Loader *)
MAudioTransitUSB *)
*) Deletion of these non-Apple Items doesn´t have any effect.
In fact, I tried the solutions I found in the discussions and on Maxfixit.com without any effect. BTW, opening a ps2-file in Acrobat Pro 7.07 and saving it as a pdf works .

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