Acrobat PDF 8 printer missing pdf options

I have seen this discussed in a few places, but have never come across a fix that works for me. Basically when trying to print to the pdf printer, the pdf options is not available in the drop-down of printer settings. This is affecting about 10 of my machines at different sites.
I have tried removing the ppd and letting Acrobat repair it. I have also tried multiple other suggestions to change the permissions of the ppd file. the other method I have tried is to remove the pdf preferences from ~/Library/Preferences.
I am running 10.4.11 on all of these machines with the latest version of Acrobat 8 professional.
Thank you for any help you can provide!
-Ken

I've been playing with this for a couple of months now and haven't got any closer to a solution. It is not application specific. The problem can be seen when printing from any application to the Adobe PDF 8 printer.
The only thing I can think of that may be different is that I modified the Adobe installer to include the volume serial number for our organization.
Things I have tried that have not worked:
* Cleared caches, preferences, fixed permissions, verified no disk problems
* removed PPD, and PDF plugins from /Library/Printers/PPD\ Plugins/ and /usr/libexec/cups/backend/pdf088
* removed preferences and application support files from /Library and ~/Library
* Let Acrobat repair everything
* Reset print system
* Ran all updates
* Manually uninstalled CS3 and re-installed
I have the same problem on Leopard, but I am able to fix it by fixing the two aliases located in ~/Library/Preferences/com.adobe.print/AdobePDF8/Aliases/ Or just simply delething them and letting them regenerate.
I know more people out there are having the same problem, I just don't see any answers out there that actually work.
Thank you,
Ken

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