Autocad to Acrobat PDF time out?

I have atocad 2008 LT, Acrobat 9 standard on a windows 7 machine. Printing to pdf from autocad was no problem until recently... now, after maybe 20 prints, it times out and no longer allows me to print to pdf. I have to completely restart the machine to get it to work again.
Anyone else have this issue?
Anyone have a solution?
Thanks!

BUMP!
I have the same issue. I need to fix this, as I work in a print shop and need to save separations for our offset printer. This never used to happen, so I have no idea what the fix could be?
Please help and thank you!

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I have been struggling with this same problem of Printing to Acrobat PDF driver freezing up not only the print spooler, but also the software I was printing from, on Windows 7 64Bit, using both acrobat 9.4 and Acrobat X with the same freeze, stall lockup result.
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