Acrobat 9 - Converting to PDF creates shortened lines - Bug??

I've just converted from Acrobat 8 to Acrobat 9 as part of the Creative Design Suite and now running on Windows7.
In the past I have found it extremelly convenient to print various documents (eg Hotmail - emails or printouts of a web page) to PDF files.  In Acrobat 8 I had no problem when
selecting Print - to PDF to create a PDF document, which I can then file.  However, with Acrobat 9 it seems that all the PDF files I create in this way have  2 unexpected and undesirable things in common:
1) all documents are displayed with huge scale factors (ie 785% or 1000%).
2) all the lines in the document are foreshortened so that only a small piece of a few characters (typically unreadable) appears in the PDF (regardless of what you then change the scale factor to) and as a result creates lengthy documents of many pages, even though the original document may have been only a single page.  Interestingly, only the thing readable seems to be a file header showing the URL of the page printed.
Is there a setting that I must make in setting up Acrobat 9 so that I get an accurate recreation of the original document rather than a long thin vertical string of documents many pages long that are totally unusuable or is this a bug in Acrobat 9 running on Windows7.
Obviously, any help in this regard would be appreciated as Acrobat 9 is currently unusable.

Try checking your Firefox page setup (File > Page Setup) . I use Firefox and did a test print of this thread to pdf with no problems. I am using Firefox 3.5.2 and Acrobat Pro 9.2.
I like to save web pages electronically for reference, too. PDF files are handy, but you might also consider a Firefox add-on called ScrapBook. I have found it very useful. The files are stored as html.
This thread was odd. As soon as I sent in the above response, the question was marked as answered although it was highly improbable that my response was read within seconds!
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