Acrobat distiller 3 = small pdf vs. distiller 6 = large pdf

FYI: windows xp pro
using the trial version of pagemaker 7 last month i exported a very large document(A) to pdf and it came out to 6mb
using the permanent version of pagemaker 7 this month i exported a much smaller document(B) to pdf and it came out to 16mb
checked distiller job options and they're the same
to test where this was happening i went back and exported (A) again and it came out much larger than originally
the only difference i found between the small and large pdfs was in the pdf tab of properties - the smaller one is distiller 3 and the larger one is distiller 6. (i've included a snapshot)
i don't remember downloading distiller 6, so i'm really not sure where distiller 3 went, but it's no longer on my computer.
could distiller 6 be the culprit?
NOTE: had this posted on acrobat forum and received the following answer from bill:
However, if you are using Export in PM, then you are not using Acrobat. You will need to ask in the PM forum about the processing there with the export.
so now i'm a little bit more confused, but hopefully in the right forum.

There's so many variables in your question it's hard to know where to begin.
1. The size of the PM file doesn't necessarily directly relate to the size of the PDF created from it.
2. Different versions of Distiller do produce different sizes of PDF.
3. You do not need Acrobat to create PDFs from PM.
4. Your screen captures suggest the PDFs were created using PM's Export… AdobePDF…, and somewhere along the line you changed your version of Distiller. Have you installed a version of Acrobat?
5. PM is not supplied with Acrobat, which is a PDF editor and creator - only Distiller, which is the creator part. I think I'm correct in saying the latest version of PM is supplied with Distiller 6.

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