Acrobat printer not working

I have Acrobat Pro Vers 9..2 installed onto a Windows XP platform.
When selecting the print option from any application (eg Word)
Adobe PDF appears in the list of avavilable printers, however
when it's selected the "print" command button is then disabled.
So the pdf 'printer' appears to be installed but the 'print' command
can't be selected.
Other printers (laserjet etc) that are installed
all work fine - it's only the pdf file I can't print...
Any help appreciated. Thank-you.

Thanks for the input!
The upgrade to 8.1.6 did solve the problem. Acrobat still works poorly, but at least the PDF Maker works quite fine.
Nevertheless, it's really too bad that Adobe requires you to purchase a full (and considerably expensive) upgrade for Win7 support. Adobe 8 is not that old so that it would require updating.

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