Cannot create PDF via Postscript

I am trying to create a postscript file from Photoshop CS3 via the Adobe PDF 8.0 Printer. The file needs to fit on tabloid size paper to accommodate the crop marks.
I choose the PDF printer, create postscript file, distill it and open it in Pro 8.1.2 I get these colorful boxes all over the image.
I keep getting the message, this is not a postscript printer, etc. when creating the postscript file.
Leopard 10.5.2
Intel Mac Quad Core
Acrobat Pro 8.1.2
Never had this issue before even when I used my non-postscript printers to create the ps file until I need it on larger paper. Thanks!

There seems to be some problems with the PDF files created directly from PS CS3. Some of the text is leaving a white area behind it. The text is half white and half the color it is supposed to be. It is also not consistent with each file, though they are created the exact same way, same settings, etc.
The printers have requested that I create a postscript file then Distill it to create the PDFs. They are requiring PDFX1a files, which is what I have always created directly out of PS bypassing Distiller until the complaint came in. I also need crop marks so saving as an eps didn't work.
What I did find that worked is flatten the PS CS3 file and then create the postscript file.

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