Acrobat 9 loses my links from word

Hey, I hope someone here can hlp me with this.
I'm using Word 03 and Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.
When I convert a word document from a .doc to a pdf using the Adobe PDF > Convert to PDF option from within Word most of my hyperlinks stop working. They even stop being selectable text, so the person viewing the PDF can't even copy and paste the URL out.
The same thing happens when I try to create a PDF from the word document from within acrobat.
Is there a soultion for this? I have a lot of links that I need to have working!

Thanks for the suggestion! I use Word 2007 with acrobat 8 at my company and I'm experiencing a similar problem. The link remains but while word can hide a link with all of it's parameters it can show some other more easily understood text. So when I say 'click here' and 'here' is actually a link to a really long url - it just makes the document more readable. Acrobat ignores the link information hidden behind the text.
Acrobat 8 complains when I try to use Word 2007 files and saving as an earlier version of Word seems to have some problems, too. I also couldn't find an Options button on the save as window. Are you referring to the save as window in Acrobat?

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