Acrobat 8 Professional (Distiller/Printing to PDF)

I'm running Acrobat 8 Pro with latest patches installed (8.1.6, I believe) and ran into an issue using Snow Leopard. I can get Acrobat 8 to load and run fine, allowing me to save PDFs from within the application. However, the Adobe 8.0 printer driver (distiller) appears broken in 10.6. If I select the printer it will go through the options of where to save the file, and a print queue for the document, but then it won't create it in the end. I know many of you are probably thinking "why print to Adobe PDF when you can just use the built-in PDF button to save as PDF instead." I guess I just like my apps to work. Removing/resetting the adobe driver through the 'add printer' option didn't seem to help. Anyone else try this yet?

This is a major Pain in the A>>. I work in a virtual office and share a pretty high volume of PDF documents as software requirements, diagrams, etc. I almost never print to actual paper, the PDF driver was my default printer. I would hit Cmd-P, Return, print a file name, Return and presto a PDF. Now I have to mouse around and find the "save to PDF" option from some ridiculous nearly hidden list of options in a drop down button. There's no keystroke or shortcut that I can find that allows me to do this w/out mousing around.
Sounds like Apple and Adobe ran out of time and the usability got left on the cutting room floor.
BTW, I'm on Acrobat 8 still, so I don't even have the option to "Print to Adobe PDF" - AND if I print to landscape mode, the view isn't rotated, the document is "sitting on its side" in portrait -- very frustrating...

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