Acrobat Freezes

I have Adobe CS3 installed on my computer now. I am running windows XP
When I open a pdf file and click on the file button on top I start to scroll down to print the doccument and it freezes on the word Organize. It just freezes there and I have to shut down the program. Also if I am in a program and I want to print to the PDF driver it also freezes. I have a 2.3 Ghz processor and 2 gigs of ram. WHen I try to print to the PDF driver it opens Distiller, it starts and then freezes. Here is the error message that is displayed
Error in PDFX4 2007.Joboptions:/check compliance out of range.
It seems to keep starting and stopping. When I try to exit Distiller it just keeps retrying so it will not let me close it. I have to reboot my system to get it to shut down.
I had Adobe CS2 on the computer before and it did the same thing. I even installed Acrobat on another computer and I do not have these problems. I would imagine that it is an issue with some kind of settings with my computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Not sure if this will reply--can't find a reply on the site. It is Adobe
Reader--the latest version. I'm going to install an earlier one.
Carol McClain
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On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Claudio González

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