CS3 PDF's read as corrupt on PC

We are a cross platform Mac/PC environment. Just recently upgraded the Macs to CS3. Completely patched up with updates as recently as last week.
Windows users, on a intermittent basis, cannot open pdfs created on Macs. If I have another user create the pdf, it will then work even though the Mac user is creating the pdf from the same source (Quark, InDesign, Illustrator, etc.) file. This happens internally and just recently with an external PC.
Network info:
Mac
10.4.11
Quark, Adobe CS3
Intels & G5s
PC
Windows XP SP2
Patches up to date as of this morning (WSUS server)
Adobe Reader 7.0 and/or Full Acrobat 7.0
Dell Computers
Any help would be appreciated.
Mike

Make sure you are creating PDFs that are Acrobat 7 compliant (PDF 1.6) from CS3. I believe with CS3 you have Acrobat 8.1.2 which creates PDF 1.7 by default. This in and of itself may not make a PDF fail in Reader 7, but Reader will probably complain, and, if there is any PDF 1.7 dependent criteria, then the PDF will fail in Acrobat 7.0.

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