Converting Files to Adobe PDF

Hi Guys,
I am running Windows XP SP 3 on all 120 computers in my workplace.
We use Adobe Acrobat 8.0 / 9.0 on most of our computers. We have the print to pdf functionality and use it quite extensively.
I have been having this problem since day one and havent been able to resolve it. When ever we print to PDF, it could be a word document or an excel spreadsheets with multiple workbooks, it never PDF's it to one file. It always spreads it over multiple pages. I have tried going into preferences and tried looking for something that might say, Print to One Document or print to one file, but couldn't find anything.
Now we have reached a stage wherein we are having Excel Workbooks with 24 pages and Word documents spanning over 200 pages and its a nightmare trying to convert them. We end up having 30 - 40 files that then we drag and drop to form one PDF document.
Is there any easier way to force the PDF to PDF all documents to one file rather than multiple files?
I'm using Office XP / 2002 / 2003 in my environment with all servcie packs.

I'm having the same frustration converting publisher files to
pdf files. I used to be able to convert 2003 publisher files to
Acrobat7.0 standard but now that I have Microsoft 2007 nothing
seems to be compatable. Help.

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I have.
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