Acrobat 8.1.2 - PDF Printer still not working & Distiller crashes on startup!!!

Hello,
when 8.1.2 update was released my hopes where great but now I'm realy disappointed!!!
After 3 times reinstalling CS3 Suite (incl. clean cs) and updateing for hours NOTHING seems to be fixed! Oh, well, the bouncing icon seems to be but maybe just because I'm not using Acrobat any more...
Here's a summary of my specs and the problems I have:
OSX 10.5.2 on a Intel 8-core MAC Pro w. 4 GB Ram
Suitcase Fusion (also for System Fonts)
CS3 Premium w. latest Update(s)
Xpress 7 + Love Bundle
Country settings: Lang. German, country Austria
Installed Hardware:
Superdrive
ATI Radeon graphic card
Mighty Mouse wireless + New wireless Apple keyboard
24" DELL TFT monitor
2 x 500 Gb HDD's
The main problem is that I HAVE TO create print PDFs from Xpress doc's wich is impossible without Distiller!
The 8.1.2 update seems to fix the "pausing PDF printer Problem", now the PDF printer sends the PS file to Distiller wich just crashes!
Here's the Distiller crash log (looong):
Process: Distiller [1022]
Path: /Applications/Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional/Acrobat Distiller.app/Contents/MacOS/Distiller
Identifier: com.adobe.distiller
Version: 8.1.2 (8.1.2)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [76]
Date/Time: 2008-02-20 09:50:33.461 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (9C31)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 11
Thread 11 Crashed:
0 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x010fcf49 os_strcmp + 10
1 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01112942 PSRIPAppendHostSearchDir + 385
2 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01112b01 PSRIPAppendHostSearchDir + 832
3 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01136c09 RgstUnixStoDevFileNameProc + 90
4 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x010e8aae StoDevCreateStm + 253
5 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x010e5476 CreateFileStm + 25
6 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x0115562d PurgeFilterStorageTempFiles + 129
7 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01147210 FiltersInitProc + 500
8 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x01148065 RegisterFiltersInit + 79
9 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x0122f379 PSRealTime + 230
10 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x0122f752 InitPostScript + 607
11 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x012be9a6 AwaitAllPSPages + 1802
12 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x012bece0 HPGLInterpreter + 192
13 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x011122c7 PSRIPInitialize + 1165
14 com.adobe.DistillerLib 0x00efa598 DistillerPSRip::PSInit(void*) + 256
15 ...ple.CoreServices.CarbonCore 0x95705409 CooperativeThread + 309
16 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90bf7c55 _pthread_start + 321
17 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90bf7b12 thread_start + 34
Thread 11 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x011128b4 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0xffffffd1
edi: 0x16e03248 esi: 0xb05d8440 ebp: 0xb05d8418 esp: 0xb05d8414
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010202 eip: 0x010fcf49 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x0000001f gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000000

I posted this elsewhere, but I thought it couldn't hurt to repost here:
I had a similar problem and finally figured out why (and now to fix it).
Permissions were messed-up on ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat
I did not have read-write permissions in it and Distiller was failing to create the ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/Distiller 8/FontCache subdirectory.
I simply changed the owner and permission on ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat and the problem went away.

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