Adobe Reader X produces "gibberish"; Adobe Reader 9.4.0 works fine

I have a program that does certain things, but the code is irrelevant: I can manually duplicate the process.
1. I have C:\Users\Me\Temp\Report.PDF. I can open it and it is perfectly readable.
2. I set the printer preferences (output file name, output folder, file format, etc. -- it is a Black Ice "printer") and set it as the default printer.
3. I right-click the file and choose Print.
4. I open and view the output file.
I have been using Adobe Reader 9 and had no problems.
Our company is now using Adobe Reader X and a tester tried the program with Adobe Reader X and had problems; so I installed Adobe Reader X last night and, sure enough, immediately the "gibberish" problem started.
Today, I uninstalled Adobe Reader X and downloaded and installed Adobe Reader 9.4.0 and the output PDF is readable again.
The problem occurs with Adobe Reader X but not with Adobe Reader 9. This is doubly confirmed.
What changes have been made between versions 9.4.0 and X that would produce "gibberish" in an output PDF?

It was the new feature, Protected Mode.
However, the problem is not yet solved. I can MANUALLY uncheck the Enable Protected Mode at Startup checkbox (on General page from Edit, Preferences), but it needs to be done programmatically.
I found the Registry setting I want to modify in code before someone prints:
1. The key is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\Privileged
2. The value is bProtectedMode
3. The data I want to write is the number 0, for off.
I wrote a program that can modify registry settings for REG_SZ data types and it works. But bProtectedMode is REG_DWORD, and I cannot get that to work. If I leave the desired data 0 as a number I get a data-type mismatch error because the Win32 API function is declared to expect a string for that argument. But if I convert the desired data 0 into a string -- I've tried "0", " 0",, and "0000", the last 2 because REG_DWORD should be expecting 4 bytes of data -- I get weird values in the Registry's data.
Anyone know the trick?

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