Acrobat 9 Printer Setting reverts to Acrobat 8 in 9.2 Update ?

Hi there....
I have been working away creating Postscript files using Acrobat 9 in Snow Leopard with no problems... I would go into my Quark Print dialog box.. select my printer which would normally be Acrobat 9 and then select the Output Style.... then select the Print PPD, again that would be Acrobat 9 and then select print and create my Postscript file for distilling.
But now after the 9.2 update.... the Acrobat Printer has disappeared and been replaced with Acrobat 8. I still get to select Acrobat 9 as my target PPD.... and the results seem the same.... but I am worried something has gone wrong.... is this the way it should be?
If anyone else is having similar issues I would love to hear from you.... with your comments and suggestions.
Regards,
Anthony
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Hey Anthony
Acrobat automatically updated on a couple of our machines here in the studio today and we are now experiencing exactly the same issue as you, except now, we don't even have Acrobat 8 PPD settings to revert to! The update has removed both settings. We installed Snow Leopard last week and updated to CS4 and did have some 9.0 PPD issues, but they were resolved when we distilled because Distiller recognised that the PPD was missing and created it for us to use. We tried the same technique this time, but to no avail.
We are using "Generic Imagesetter" as our PPD device option and then distilling as normal. We've yet to see if this is acceptable when we go to production, but we're relatively confident because it's a production-quality setting. We are working on a couple of tests now, which we are going to send to a couple of printers. I'll update you on the situation once we've heard back from them.
Absolutely ridiculous that this has occurred though. Doesn't somebody test these updates before they're sent out? Why has an Acrobat update decided to strip PPD settings out? And I can't believe no-one has replied to your question since you posted. What happened to customer support, eh?

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