Acrobat won't convert Word documents within the Acrobat program

I am running OS 10.5.2 on my MacBook Pro. I also have Microsoft Office 2004. I just installed Acrobat 8.0 Pro, patched it all up from the downloads on the website and was ready to convert some Word documents that I have to give to my boss. Went through Acrobat and it gives me the following error message:
"Acrobat could not open 'Dissertation-1.1.doc' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).
To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the document to Adobe PDF or use the Acrobat toolbar found in Microsoft Office applications."
The file was not an attachment and I don't think it is damaged (or at least I hope not). I can make the PDF document in Word or any of the other Office apps with the tool bar or the PDF printer with Distiller but eventually I'm going to have to combine everything and just thought it would be easier to work through Adobe.
Has anyone else had this problem or has come about at a solution for converting within Adobe? I might just be missing something obvious but I would appreciate any help that anyone can give. Thanks!

It was telling you actually what you needed to do.
Go into word2004 open the document and to Page setup and choose Adobe Printer. Then go to Print menu and choose print File. Then name the file and select desired location.
What actually happens is acrobat will create a hidden .ps File and check it. (up to 3 times if needed) before writing the hidden.ps file. The Distiller is open in Background hidden and converts the .ps file to a PDF file the file is checked and retried up to three times if something isn't right. Then The Pdf file is written to disk finally the hidden .ps file is deleted and the pdf file appears.
If your still using 2004 a little icon may show up in word called pdfmaker. This is a little VBA script that does the equivent of above. however its ver slow and if you have a long document your hair may turn gray before it finishes.
In Office2008 for Mac VBA is dead and laid out in its coffin with its arrival. so PDFMaker is a useless piece of code. Thankfully going into menu view options unchecking PDFMaker actually does banish it from the screen and does don't try to get reinserted if you banish it.
By the way because of the new XML Based Code in Office2008 they have a word to PDF Translator built in just go to Save As... and scroll down until you see PDF.

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