Printing Problems with PowerPoint 2007

Running Acrobat Pro 8.1.4, / Distiller Pro 8.1.3 / and PDF Maker Plug-in 8.1.3.0 / Windows XP.
Using the plug-in from PowerPoint 2007 to create a PDF file of that PowerPoint, I see the following: "preparing slide" and then "Converting to Adobe PDF ..." and then receive the following "Acrobat PDF Maker" error: "An error occurred when trying to print to Adobe PDF." On other occasions, when I've tried this -- my PC crashed.
When I use the printer function in PowerPoint ("print to adobe pdf" ) to get around this problem -- the first time, the process seems to complete, but then, no pdf file appears (I have the option set to open that file) ... and the file is not present in the saved location. However, when I try the same thing again -- the resulting file both appears and is available as a saved file in the right location.
Any insights / suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Gary

Thanks Bill - appreciate your advice. I printed the PowerPoint "to file" (but was required to uncheck the "use system fonts only" option.) Having generated the print file*, I ran distiller without any problems - no error messages. Having failed to understand the problem that way - I saved the powerpoint in 2003 format, and again, tried to use the pdf maker plug-in -- and received the same error message at the same junctor as before. (I had preferences set-up with "embed font -- which I unchecked and also tried to run -- but without success.)
*Something odd -- the last several times that I have used the print to PDF (with or without "to file" checked) -- I seem to fail on the first effort ... but succeed on the second effort.
Will look forward to any further guidance.
And again ... thanks.
Gary

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