Control Adobe printer settings through VBA

I'm writing VBA code in Excel 2003. I need it to create a Word document and then translate the Word document into a pdf using Adobe pdf as a printer. I have all of this working. The problem is that there's a save as dialog that comes up so the user has to click ok. This program is creating hundreds of pdf files at a time so its not workable to have to click ok each time.
I found the properties dialog for the pdf printer and there is a setting that lets me specify a default folder. Setting this works great and does just what I want, but the client I'm doing this for needs to use the adobe printer for themselves and they're not computer savvy enough to be able to go make the change for themselves each time they use the program. Is there a way with VBA code to change the setting while the program runs and then change it back? I've combed a lot of these forums and read the sdk documentation and I can't find a straight answer to this.
Thanks - Eric

Thanks for the reply, and on Thanksgiving no less :-)
I downloaded the Acrobat 9.1 SDK and found 2 documents: pdf_reference.pdf and UD3Elements.pdf. I looked through both of these and found no reference to silent printing. I did a search on the Adobe site and found no exact match for Distiller IAC Guide or Documentation. I found a few results that contained the terms Distiller and IAC but found no reference to silent printing. I did find a reference to a description of an example that somehow involved silent printing, but when I tried to open it Adobe Reader told me that the Adobe pdf file was missing or corrupt.
I am not an acrobat expert nor do I want to or have any reason to be. I have 1 small project that needs to do 1 thing with creating pdf documents and it has been unneccessarily complicated to find an answer to such a straightforward problem, especially when so many other people seem to be confused about the same thing. I can write code that modifies the registry. If someone could just tell me what the 2 registry values are and what they need to be set to or at least a link to this document that explains it, I would greatly appreciate it.

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