Adobe Acrobat Crashes - Cant access Preferences/Convert from PDF

Hello all, Ive googled this for days but cant find a fix ...
I have an Xserve running Server 10.7.5.  Application I am having problems with is Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.
When I try to access a Preference for changing the way the app converts pdfs to a postscript file, the app freezes and crashes ...
Some of the log is here ...
Application Specific Information:
objc[2891]: garbage collection is OFF
Performing @selector(handleAction:) from sender UIT_NSButton 0x4e5a790
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x9a183a69 CFURLCreateStringWithFileSystemPath + 265
1   com.apple.CoreFoundation                0x9a18394d CFURLCopyFileSystemPath + 45
2   AdobeAGM                                0x7e728e70 PPDList_MacOSXCompressed::GetPPDFiles() + 592
3   AdobeAGM                                0x7e8a2cd8 PPDListCache::GetPPDList() + 164
4   AdobeAGM                                0x7e5ecaaa PrintSession::GetAvailablePPDFiles() + 18
5   AdobeAGM                                0x7e7246db PrintSession_Mac_Carbon::GetAvailablePPDFiles() + 37
6   AdobeAGM                                0x7e5ed9de _AGMPrintSessionGetAvailablePPDFilesProc_GetAvailablePPDFiles(AGMPrintSession*) + 40
I have totally uninstalled and reinstalled the Creative Suite CS4 Apps and still get the same crash ...
I have another machine with similar specs and it does not crash ... Weird !
I have allso tried changing users to see if its user based, but looks like a system thing to me ...
Any ideas peeps ?  Any assistance appreciated !
Mitch

If anyone has a similar issue I found this on the Adobe forums where a similar crash was occurring on printing in Creative Suite 4 ...
To avoid this crash  try this workaround.
remove adobe PDF PPD from the following folders:
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/en.lproj,
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/Zh_CN.lproj,
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/Ja.lproj,
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/ko.lproj,
OS/Library/Printers/PPDs/contents/Resources/Zh_TW.lproj,
I have removed the ppd's folders (although retaining the en.lproj folder seems to be OK) ... per above and now I do not crash when accessing the preference I need to get to.
Mitch

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