Acrobat X and Word 2010 missing text

Has anyone found a solution yet to dropping text box text when converting a Word 2010 document via the PDF print driver? There are various posts on this topic but no real solution. Most resolve by using the "Save as Adobe PDF", which works but doesn't solve the actual problem. I have a specific document that we use extensively as a template to create other documents and the text in one text box is consistently clipped off when printing to PDF.
These are controlled documents done in Word that are kept in a limited access vault and need to be approved. Once approved, I create a PDF and put it in a public location. If I use the Save As option it works fine, except that it has to save the Word document before creating the PDF (why....? I haven't touched it...?). Since I'm working in the vault, the file is Read Only, so I have to browse out to another location, save it and then create the PDF. I get a lot of these and that's a very time consuming side trip, not to mention the extra file management of having to clean up all those files I needlessly created.
I've tried changing font to Arial, as well as making sure the background is set to No Color. No luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I had no problems using my Vista machine with Office 2007 and Acrobat 9. They upgraded me to a new machine with Win7, Office 2010 and Acrobat X and all those great improvements seem to have left me less functional.

Thanks, Bill!
Coincidentally, I had an AA update come in this morning. I checked Word (yes, it's 32-bit) and downloaded a couple of updates that were waiting (.NET security issues, not sure they're related?). But after the reboot I tried creating a PDF with the Press settings and everything was there. Better yet, I tried again with the standard settings and everything looks good! I verified by converting two or three other documents and everything's fine.
I thought I was stayingup to date but the latest updates seemed to do it! Thanks for the help!
Jim

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