Acrobat 7.0 Missing PdfMaker files and won't pdf files

Question

Hi,
I have Acrobat 7.0 standard edition and I'm running it on Windows XP with MS Office 2003.
The icons to automatically create PDF from MS Word does not appear and when I look for them on the toolbars menu they are not there.
So I open Acrobat and click create pdf, but midway it tells me that it is missing some pdfmaker files and do I want to run it on repair mode.
I click yes, but that does not solve the issue.
I have tried uninstalling and removing the whole program and that did not help.
I even removed all the activation information and reinstalled it and reactivated it and no luck.
I have also downloaded the latest update from adobe and still no luck.
Please help if you can

Answer 1

I have had this problem with nearly every version of Adobe Acrobat up to and including 9.0
Here are four things I do to resolve this issue in order of time/difficulty:
First, I made sure that the Adobe Acrobat plug-in wasn't disabled.
In any Microsoft Product such was Word, Excel, etc.  go to Help>About Microsoft (Word/project, etc) and then click on the 'disabled items' button.
If the plug-in is disabled, select it and enable it again.
Second,  I make sure the PDFMaker files are registered.
I open a command prompt and navigate to the PDFMaker plug-in dll files in Adobe.
In Adobe Acrobat 8.0  the file path is:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\PDFMaker\Office
I then type in:
regsvr32 PDFMOffceAddin.dll
That should enable the Office PDFMaker plug-ins.
Third, I make sure that the AcroDist.exe application path was configured properly in the registry.
If it isn't, I just create it.
Registry path:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths
Look for the entry "AcroDist.exe"
If not there, create it - it is a 'Key". (right click on App Paths and choose New>Key)
In the AcroDist.exe  key the (Default) value should be:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\AcroDist.exe  
or
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\AcroDist.exe
depending on which version of Adobe Acrobat you have.  Essentially you put the absolute path for the AcroDist.exe file in there.
The only other entry in the AcroDist.exe key should be the String Value Path.  If it isn't there, create it  (right click and choose New>String Value)
The name of the String Value should be Path and the value should be the path of the AcroDist executable.   e.g.:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Acrobat\
or
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0\Acrobat\
Close out the registry and try to use the PDFMaker again
If that still doesn't work then I run a repair on Adobe.  If THAT doesn't work then I completely uninstall/reinstall.