Adobe Acrobat 8 in Windows 7 only printing to prn

2 Weeks ago I lost my production laptop (Windows Vista OS) so I had to reload all my system software on a new laptop (Windows 7 OS), which included Adobe Web Premium CS3. My primary printer is the Adobe PDF Printer, which I had no problem with in the Vista OS environement. Now when I try to print to pdf from any software on this new laptop, the pdf printer will only print to prn. I have been to the properties dialog box for the Adobe PDF Printer and there is no Adobe PDF port shown. I deleted the PDF Printer as instructed in another discussion in this forum and opened Adobe Acrobat 8 to repair from the Help menu, but there is no "repair" in the Help menu. I have tried reinstalling Adobe Acrobat 8 but that doesn't seem to help. I am sunk without my PDF Printer. I have print jobs to send out to my printer today so I simply have to get this fixed. Any successful help that anyone can give would be very much appreciated. Thank you ahead of time.

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