Macro Warning When Creating PDF

Windows 7, Word 2007, Acrobat X Pro.
Using Acrobat to convert an MS Word Doc to PDF, I get a message:  "The macros in this project are disabled.  Please refer to the online help or documentation of the host application to determine how to enable macros".  I would like to find a way to prevent this VB Message from appearing each time we convert a MS Word file to PDF.
I have done a lot of research and I'm fairly sure this problem is caused by the fact that Acrobat 10 calls Microsoft Word during the conversion process. The proper way this should have been done was to call MS Word using the user's security settings (i.e. Macros Enabled in my case). However I believe Acrobat is calling MS Word with the /m option which turns off security. Hence users see the popup message from Visual Basic (MS Word process).
I verified this to some degree by running the Acrobat "Combine Files into a Single PDF" function and watched the Windows Task Manager. A version of the Winword.exe process is loaded. Then the Visual Basic Message box appears. The message box is from Word as the taskbar shows this as part of MS Word. After clicking OK, the message box dissappears and the Winword.exe process dies. Then the file is converted to PDF.
MS Word provides a way to bypass this message by changing your Macro Security settings.  However, I have my MS Word Macro security setting set to "Enable All Macros", yet this message appears when converting any Word file that contains a VB Macro (using Acrobat X to do the conversion).  This tells me that Acrobat is bypassing my MS Word settings by using the /m option.
This really needs to be fixed by Adobe. They should start MS Word without the /m option. Or more generally, allowing the users (not Acrobat) to define their Macro Settings in MS Word.  In my case, we use the macros to build our numerous MS Word files, but don't need the macros in the final PDF.  So I am fine with not having the macros in the final product, but can't deal with the popup messages (hundreds of pop ups).
What is this popup such a hassle?
Since our team combines 80 to 120 Word files into a single PDF book, this is a big problem. The expectation is that we could put all the word files into the Acrobat Combiner, start the conversion and ignore it for 30mins as it converts and creates a single book. But now the users have to sit there and continually hit the "OK" button until the process is done.  Waste of resources/time for my company and making the Acrobat Combiner function useless.

LoriAUC, the link was informative but does not explain how to add Acrobat to the Trusted Publishers list.
Our Macro Settings is at Enable All Macros. The VB error doesn't look like the one in the Microsoft article. It doesn't give an option to add Acrobat on that VB error. The Trusted Publishers list does not have an Add button.
Ideally, we would like to fine a way to add Acrobat to that list if it will stop the VB errors when making a PDF, exact same problem as user above. To do that on one machine and then figure out a way to push the change to all users maybe by registry key?  Or is there maybe a way to fix this issue via group policy?  We have may computers that needs this fixed.

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