Missing text after pdf export.

I am having problems exporting to PDF from Publisher 2007.
I am using Adobe professional 8, Publisher 2007 on Windows Vista 64.
The files are created and printed to PDF. When I take a look at the PDF there are blocks of text missing. If I re-export the file again, 9 times out of 10 the text will be missing. Periodically everything will work fine with the same document. In the most recent document I am using Helvetica 55 Roman 12pt. All the body text is identical (at least from what I can tell). This exact same document exports to PDF perfectly on a Windows XP SP2 machine using Adobe Professional 8 and Office 2007.
As far as I can tell, this only occurs in when exporting from Publisher, which leads me to believe that it is an MS problem but I have been unable to find any information about something Publisher specific.
Thanks in advance for any help. This is frustrating.
Jason

I spoke too soon.
I exported (using the adobe add-in) 8 documents. The first 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 were fine. Numbers 4, 6, and 8 had problems.
All these documents were created from the same template. I did the first and all subsequent documents were created by duplicating pages and swapping text. The page numbers vary from 5 to 16. There is no apparent connection with page count as several of the larger ones exported perfectly.
I don't know if this information is relevant at all. I am hoping that it gives someone an indication of what might be causing this.
Thanks again,
Jason

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