Acrobat 7.0 - Printing as PDF doesn't 'fix' redactions.

Hi,
We carry out a lot of redacting of files and exempting information. To do this we use stamps and opaque boxes to cover information and then used the 'Print as pdf' to 'fix' the stamps and boxes in place so that the hidden information can't be viewed.
This seemed to be fine until my colleague discovered that when on a fixed redacted page he can move his mouse back and forth and can reveal the previously hidden text!
As far as we can determine there is no other way of revealing the 'removed' text but this is decidedly worrying as we rely on Acrobat removing the information which it obviously isn't doing!
I'd like to know if anyone else has had this problem and how they have resolved it, if at all. Given the nature of the information we deal with, if we can't be certain that Acrobat actually removes the information we'll have to look at using a completely different option and we could really do without the expense and inconveniance of that!
Thanks.

Thanks for your comments.
I think we're already looking at getting Acrobat 9.0. What do you know about Redax? I'm guessing it can handle pdfs?

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