Difficulty printing colors from Acrobat 8 PDF

I'm running Acrobat 8.1.2 and InDesign CS3 5.0.2.
We created a file in ID3 using two boxes containing Pantone color with transparency added. The color appears over a placed tif graphic that also had some transparency applied and a placed PDF with no transparency. Everything works properly when the file is exported to Acrobat 8 and printed from Acrobat 8.
We sent the file to a user in another area who still has Acrobat 7 and when they print the file they lose the colors. If we send the job to their printers from Acrobat 8 the colors print correctly so it doesn't seem to be a printer issue.
The Acrobat 7 user can print the file by choosing Print as Image under Output, but we are looking for what is causing the difficulty. Any ideas would be grealy appreciated.

I have no idea about the extend tool. You need to update to the latest version of AA 8, but it appears you are there with 8.3.1. You should print to the Adobe PDF printer. OFFICE 2013 is not compatible with the AA8 PDF Maker. So far I have only seen one person suggesting success with AA8 and Win8.1. If you can give details about your problem, we might be able to help, but you may not be successful. Only time and trial will tell.

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******BUG******
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DrStrik9 (sounds a bit poisonous to me!),
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