Contact Sheets as pdf

Hi everyone,
I recently upgraded my computer to a Core i5 750, 8Go Ram, dual 24" screen and Win 7 64 bits. I also got Lightroom 3, update
from the previous one. I used to export my contact sheets as pdf with PrimoPDF (sorry, not adobe) and it was working fine but since
all these hardware and softwares upgrades, Lightroom 3 keeps on freezing everytime I try to generate and save a contact sheet as pdf.
I had a look in the task manager, it's eating up to 4Go of Ram and sometimes it even completely froze the computer with 8 Go of ram used...
Exporting the contact sheets as jpg is fine.
Any idea?
Cheers
Olivier

Hi, sorry for my late reply, I've been really busy lately.
I have tried with pdfcreator and what you suggested but everytime it crashed Lightroom. I eventually removed Lightroom, did a reinstall, it looks like it's working now. But I feel that Lightroom is crashing way too much compared to version 2.7.
Thanks anyway.
Cheers
Olivier

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