CS3 - Acrobat 8 Pro - stopped converting MS apps Word/Publisher/Excel

Hello,
SUDDENLY after having no trouble with this for 2 years, I get the message in the attached image whenever I try to convert a MS app document from Word, Publisher or Excel.
Also cannot print to PDF from a web page or as a work around to the MS problem
I can pdf from any of the CS programmes fine. I can even so screen captures and create a pdf from the clipboard image.
Coincidentally at the same time another weird thing happened....I found the Selection tool in Illustrator stopped behaving in its normal way and acts like the Direct Selection tool and I now have to use the Free Transform tool to change the size of an object.  The shop I do work for also has CS3, which was bought at the same time as my copy, and that Illustrator has the same problems!  We do ferry files back and forth between us, so did one of us cause this to the other?
Did something happen in the recent CPSID 46197 update for Acrobat Pro  8 1 6 ???
More important...any help for this?
Thanks!
Bristol UK

OK...I found the answer to the Illy thing in the Illy forum...which is where I first should have looked!
The bounding box view was "hidden".... a click too far at the shop probably.

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