48"x48" poster PDF - graphics distorted

Good evening,
I'm having some minor difficulties tonight. Nothing that I can't handle via a workaround, but was wondering if anyone knew why some InDesign elements are getting distorted in my PDFs.
Here's the process I'm going through:
I'm working on a 48"x48" poster that includes a logo, some text and some multi-angled shapes that I drew with the pen tool in InDesign on a blank background. The shapes extend from the very top edge down to the very bottom edge.
When I look at the PDF that I generate, however, the shapes that I drew in InDesign have been squashed to about 2/3 their true height (it's not just missing the bottom third -- the shapes are actually distorted, the bottom of the shapes being pulled up and the angles adjusted accordingly).
And, to go over my PostScript file generation process:
I have a Print Preset in InDesign that I use to create a PostScript file, which I then drag to Distiller, which is set to the PDF/X-1A:2001 setting.
My Print Preset for generating the PostScript file includes the following settings:
Printer: PostScript File
PPD: AdobePDF 8.0
Paper Size: Custom (which automatically sets the size of the PDF to my document size)
Marks/Bleeds: (all off)
Is there something I'm missing? Is it just due to the 48" size of the InDesign document (I've saved a separate, half-size version of the InDesign file and created a PDF of that one and it looks fine)?
I've tried exporting the page as an EPS, resaving from Illustrator, dragging that EPS to Distiller to create a new PDF (same issue) as well as placing that EPS back into InDesign and re-creating the PDF (same issue).
The only thing that makes the PDF look correct is setting the InDesign file to a percent scale of the actual size ... or doing a standard Export and selecting Adobe PDF from the drop-down list (which can create unreliable files that may look fine on-screen but then print incorrectly, so I typically don't use this method).
One other note: on a separate test file I created, I added a black fill to the background of a 48"x48" InDesign file, drew a similar multi-angled shape on top of it in another color, used my normal PostScript file-to-Distiller method of creating a PDF, and the black actually filled the canvas in the PDF, but this new multi-angle shape was, again, distorted.
Any thoughts on why this might be happening?
Thanks!
Oops, forgot my versions:
InDesign CS2
Acrobat Professional 8.1.2
Mac OS X 10.4.11

There does not seems to be any preference that can be set. Clipboard text or images are placed as stamps.
One option for people who just need to paste text would be for them to insert a text comment field and paste their formatted text from Word there. (The reason to paste from Word is because the formatting will be maintained.)
Your customers may want to consider making their own custom stamp for their logo and/or any standard text that they want to appear on your newsletter. If they had their logo and text set up in Word, they could create a pdf using Acrobat.com or another free service. In Reader, they could use that pdf to define a custom stamp. A custom stamp would eliminate cutting and pasting and could be resized easily. The stamps could only be used in pdf documents that have commenting enabled, but they would not have to create a custom stamp for each newsletter – previously made stamps would be available to use in future newsletters.

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