Acrobat PDFMaker toolbar button disparity

I am printing to PDF an Outlook email message using the Acrobat PDFMaker toolbar button. The document generates but is displaying the date of the Outlook pst file instead of the date the email was created. Conversely, if I attempt to print the same email from Outlook (File>Print>AdobePDF) the date listed on the resulting PDF is the actual date the email was generated. I suspect there is some issue with the PDFMaker toolbar. Is there an explanation or patch for this issue? I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.

Also please note that PDFMaker is a invention created by adobe to work specifically with MS Office. And will work on all version up to Office2004 on Mac.
However, In its infinite wisdom, and not realizing the wrath and backlash they would receive from Office Mac Users, dumped all VBA support in Office2008. Well, PDFMaker is a Casualty of that along with other such goodies as Solver in Excel and many other Macro based commands. MS has received such heat that they absolutely promise it will be back in Office 2010, 11, 12 whatever the next version is, at possible sacrifice of new features.
So if your trying to use with Office 2008 it won't work, you can't get it to work.
Besides, now in Office2008 you can actually create a PDF directly from the Save As command. And has solved a problem or bug Adobe has never figured out how to fix where if you created a PDF from a word document, would break the pdf into chunks depended upon whether you used Page and section Breaks. And would only create a PDF of the first sheet in an Excel spread sheet. A problem Adobe hasn't fixed in 13-14 years at least.
As to quality of the PDF created I have no idea. but they look great for the web.
So I can see why Jon threw in his comment about being removed in 9.

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Also please note that PDFMaker is a invention created by adobe to work specifically with MS Office. And will work on all version up to Office2004 on Mac.
However, In its infinite wisdom, and not realizing the wrath and backlash they would receive from Office Mac Users, dumped all VBA support in Office2008. Well, PDFMaker is a Casualty of that along with other such goodies as Solver in Excel and many other Macro based commands. MS has received such heat that they absolutely promise it will be back in Office 2010, 11, 12 whatever the next version is, at possible sacrifice of new features.
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I want to give the possibility for someone using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 pro to be able to save a pdf document they currently have open into a database.
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