Adobe hangs Excel 2003

I have several Windows 7 machines that are using Adobe Standard 11 as well as MS Office 2003.  My users are able to run the Excel 2003 VBA code. The code uses a DDEInitiate line and that works great until I open up Adobe 10 and do a print to Adobe to create a PDF. After creating a PDF using Adobe Converter printer the user try's to run Excel again and it hangs.  Even if we try and step through the code as soon as the line of code hits the DDEInitiate it just hangs.  The Excel document will hang for about 1 min and then give us a error saying the program has encoundered an error and stopped wording.  It seems a if the Adobe program is still running in the back ground but I can't find anything.  In order to fix this problem we have the end user re-boot.  Any Ideas?

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