Problems printing as pdf in Acrobat 8.2.6

If I want to create a pdf from an MS Office file, I can 'Save As' and save the file as a pdf. This is successful. However, if I try to print to printer Adobe PDF it goes so far as to prompt me for a location to save the file, but once I hit print it doesn't give me an error or anything but no pdf is created. I don't care so much about the MS Office files as I do about being able to print web pages as pdfs.
I was told to go to the Distiller and set it to create log files and set error logging to on so that I could post any errors that show up. That sounds great but I am too much of a novice at Acrobat to know where to turn on the error logging.
Please help.
Thanks in advance.

If anyone could please help me figure out how to print as a pdf I'd really appreciate it. I've been looking all over forums for an answer and haven't been able to find one.

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