[Acrobat 8.x] PDF Printer not working

Hi there,
I just migrated from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 7. After having installed Acrobat (as part of CS3), I quickly came across the following nasty problem. The PDF Printer worked about once. After that, it became defunct. When starting a print job with PDF Printer, the entire application hangs. For some reason, there is considerable hard drive activity after that, but the application that has issued the print command does not recover (I waited for several minutes).
I have tried the following solution:
(1) Auto-Update updated my Acrobat version to 8.1.3
(2) "Repair Acrobat Installation" from Acrobat Help Menu
(3) Manually reinstalled PDF Printer
(4) Removed all PDF Ports and recovered via "Repair Acrobat Installation"
=> no effect, the problem remains.
I would be very greatful for any suggestions. This problem is driving me nuts! The PDF printer is an important component that just has to work.
Maniac

Thanks for the input!
The upgrade to 8.1.6 did solve the problem. Acrobat still works poorly, but at least the PDF Maker works quite fine.
Nevertheless, it's really too bad that Adobe requires you to purchase a full (and considerably expensive) upgrade for Win7 support. Adobe 8 is not that old so that it would require updating.

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