Attempt to print to Acrobat from IE fails/locks up

I print from IE to Acrobat to create a PDF. Sometimes I fail to notice that the document in IE is already a PDF. When that happens, the dialog box for selecting a file name to print to comes up, but it's locked up and nothing can be entered. So far I haven't found a way to get out of this locked up state other than using Task Manager to kill the IE session. I understand that trying to create a PDF from a document that's already a PDF could cause a problem. I'm just hoping there is a better way to get out of the locked up state. And it would be nice if Acrobate would give an error rather than going into a locked up state.
I'm running Win7 Pro SP1 on an HP Elitebook laptop with Acrobat 9 Pro.
Thanks in advance!

No, I do not think I used Adobe PDF Maker before.
I use only Adobe PDF printer that is created during the install (in my case it came with CS3).
The “freeze” happens when the little window called “creating Adobe PDF” comes on and blue progress indicator starts moving to the right. Somewhere past half way it just gets stuck and I can wait one, two, three or more minutes and nothing will happen. Hide button sometimes works and sometimes does not. In any way after that everything freezes (means Acrobat and IE8 stuff) and the only way to clean it is to use Task Manager to end processes.
I use Acrobat extensively to print from web, from AutoCAD and from all MS Office applications for last nine ten years (since Acrobat 4) and this is first time I have any trouble.
What do you mean by "new hook"?
Why would it affect Acrobat 9 and not version 7?

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