Acrobat docs print all black

Our 'workhorse' LJ 5Si has beeen with us for YEARS - and has pretty much always been able to do everything..
This 5Si has a JetDirect Ethernet connection on our LAN and everyone prints to it routinely... it gets a lot of usage...
But now, we suddenly have a recurrent 'new issue' with ONLY ONE OF OUR EIGHT COMPUTERS (!!!).
Suddenly, it seems that every Acrobat 'pfd' document he attempts to print yields a page that is so totally black as to be unreadable.. 100% coverage (except the margin areas).... As this user described it: "as dark as black cat in a coal mine at midnight...".
Mysteriously, this also happens when he prints to our other 'workhorse' printer, an HP LJ 8500 color laser.... so this is obviously something to do with THIS PC and the PCL drivers for these two lasers, as NONE of the other seven PCs has this problem... They all can print without problems to both of these printers.
They can all print the same documents that THIS PC cannot...
And yet, a cantankerous old HP LJ 4 prints like a gem... every time... from this same PC. (PCL 5 vs PCL 4...?)
We've tried 'updating' the HP PCL drivers (after first trying the 'default' Microsoft drivers, we then downloaded all new HP drivers), we've tried upgrading Acrobat, we've tried un-installing ALL of this (printer drivers as well as Acrobat), we've tried un-installing and deleting all associated folders for both - we've even tried creating a new user account... Seems like nothing works....
I'm about to 'blow away' Windows and re-install EVERYTHING (and that's one DAUNTING task, no doubt ... as an architectural firm, there's alot of software to re-load), so before I resort to this 'last ditch scenario', I thought I'd post a "HELP!" here and see if anyone has a clue as to what the heck is going on here...
I REALLY don''t look forward to spending the next ten hours re-building Windows XP Pro and ALL the software setup on this workstation...
Even though this PC is less than a year old (Core2-Duo @ 2.66 GHz, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB RAID-1 hard disks, etc.), I'd rather buy an entirely NEW PC than spend my time re-building this Windows OS and all the software... Yee-Gods!
Help...?
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So from my understanding, only printing from the acrobat software from one PC to 2 different HP Laserjets causes the pages to come out black.
Test pages print ok?
pages from other applications print ok?
It's likely an adobe issue, probably some kind of conflict with an update or something, have you tried slowly rolling back the windows updates to a date where the printer was working?
The only other off the wall thing I can think of is a really funky network issue or bad cable but that should theoretically effect all applications.
Good luck but I think you are looking at a complete uninstall/reinstall if the driver/app removal didn't resolve.
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