Acrobat 8 Professional won't convert Word files

I don't know whether this is a Windows system conflict, but I just can't seem to convert my Word files to PDF lately. Each time I start by "Create PDF from file", the process starts well, but after about 20% of the conversion, it just seems to idle.
I notice that each time I try to convert a file to PDF format, it always changes my default printer to the "Adobe PDF printer" instead of my own inkjet printer. Anyone has ideas or suggestions?
BTW, I have Windows Vista (32-bit) and uses MS Word 2007.

If you are having problems creating a PDF, there are two steps you should do FIRST
Go to the appropriate vendor web site and apply all updates to the program you are using (several recent messages have concerned problems with MS Word conversion, with the response that different versions of Word have different BUGS that must be fixed by a download from Microsoft - and MS Office products are not the only ones which may, from time to time, need to be updated to work properly)
Go to the Acrobat update page and apply the updates for your version of Acrobat
IN NUMBER ORDER (updates are not cumulative so, using version 8 as an example, you must apply 8.1.0 before the 8.1.1 update)
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=1&platform=Windows

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