Acrobat is gettign on my last nerve

Sorry for the flippant heading, but it accurately summarizes my mental status.
I've been blithely creating PDFs of my Word documents (all very similar) for 5 months, using the same preferences, without incident. Then I create this one PDF and the hyperlinks don't work--they show up in the PDF in hyperlink for (blue, underlined) but neither mousing over them nor clcking on them does anything.
I then find formatting errors and some typos in the Word file and fix those. Now when I try to generate the PDF, Word crashes and I get a suggestion that I should disable the Acrobat add-in. I went through all the machinations of disabling it, deleting it, reinstalling it, and even having Office 2007 and Acrobat 9 Pro reinstalled by our company IT geeks. The problem still happens with this one doc. I've copied the whole doc (except the last paragraph symbol) into a new doc and tried again--another crash.
I imagien there could be two solutions to thsi problem. One would be for someotn to tell me what I can do with an existing PDF to make the hyperlinks function as hyperlinks should. the second would be for soneone to shed some light on what formatting or content in my Word doc could be so grievous as to cause the whole thing to go to hell as the PDF creation is in process.
Another word on the PDF creation--I can see it scan down and up, and find all the bookmarks, and then the progress dialog box shows it chugging along until it's up to the halfwy point, then it blows up. I'm in despair. Any help would be much appreciated. TIA

You don't exactly say... if you are using the command bar option to create the PDF, try using the Print and select Acrobat PDF as the printer... or the reverse
I use Excel 2007 and Acrobat Pro 8 (fully updated) to create a weekly PDF from one worksheet in a workbook
I have ALWAYS had an intermittent problem where the PDF would "seem" to create... but there was no output file (and no error message)
I would simply run the process again, and never had a failure twice in a row... this was always from the command bar
Last week, I tried to create my PDF and Excel locked and I had to restart my computer (this was the first time after that week's Microsoft Patch Tuesday)
After the restart, when I went to Excel to try again... the Acrobat icon was gone from the command bar
I am now using the Print to Acrobat PDF... it works every time, and is actually faster than what I was doing before
I don't know if this will help you, but it does seem that every time either Microsoft or Acrobat have an update... continuing to work is not 100% certain

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