Acrobat Reader X sometimes prints heavy black hoizontal lines.

About 30% of the time Adobe Reader X prints heavy black horizontal lines across many sections of the page. The lines start close to the left edge of the page and continue to the right side of the page, introducing more and more lines until the block in some cases is almost an inch wide.
This happens regardless of the physical printer selected.
Subsequent printing of the same page produces a differnt black line pattern, never repeated, no reduction on number of lines, and I can never get a clearly printed page.
I can re-generate the PDF from the base application and yet another pattern of black lines print.

Sorry for partial documentation of the problem.
OS = Win XP SP3 with all current fixes.
Reader 10.0.1,
Checked for updates - none available.
Using TurboTax by Intuit to create PDF's, so I can't post a troublesome PDF.
The behavior happes on HP LaseJet 1022 and HP LaserJet 5P

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