Acrobat 8 Slow Encoding from Word, Missing Text in Result!

I am getting so frustrated with Acrobat 8.x.. not only do I have to put up with the 90-second hang after launching ANY PDF doc, but when I author docs out of Word and Quark, many times it takes ten minutes or more to export a 1-page doc and 40% of the text is MISSING! In other words, after waiting what seems an exhorbitant amount of time for a Word doc to export, I can't even use the PDF I exported because nearly half the text is missing. I'm exporting a single page price list in a basic table format. I've done this scores of times under Acrobat 7.x and it never took more than a couple of seconds and ALWAYS was WYSIWYG. Acrobat 8.x is just hopelessly broken. I've never had these problems with 7.x and earlier.
Unless there is a quick fix, my question is can I install the older Acrobat 7 and uninstall the Acrobat 8 that is part of CS3 and have 7.x work like it did for me in the past?

QuarkXpress and Word 2003 are the two apps I make PDFs from the most often. And Acrobat is version 8.1.
Win XP Pro SP2, 3.5GHz quad core with 4GB RAM, BTW.
PDF maker icons appear in all applications that can export a doc, and it is definately Adobe Distiller that is running when I click the "make PDF" icon in Word.
I found a workaround--rebooting and making the PDF first thing before I do anything else. Apparently, this version needs all the resources of a freshly-booted XP in order to work properly. After an hour of use, Acrobat breaks down again and slows to a crawl, makes incomplete documents again. Just have to completely restart anytime I make a PDF--or revert to Acrobat 7 for fully-functional PDF maker that works any time of the day or nite.

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Here's an example of what doesn't work. Basically it's all standard bullet points for the first page. At the bottom of the first page, the last bullet point has a lot of text, which then spills over onto the second page for a couple of lines. There is then a new bullet point again on the second page.
What happens is that the text on the second page above the bullet point does not get captured into the PDF.
I've shown where the text spills over onto page two by typing the following: "All this text at the top of the second page ........"
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All the companies offered both a House and Land and Turn Key product strategy except for xxxxx who did not do Turn Key homes. xxxxx homes were also generally more expensive than the other companies. For these reasons it was proposed to omit xxxxx from the Stages 1 and 2 house builder partnering strategy, and use alternate suppliers. All this text at the top of the second page (which continues on from a bullet point on the first page) does not get captured into the PDF when using the Convert to Adobe PDF icon in Microsoft Word 2003. This text will be captured however if you change background colour (fill).
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