Distilling transparent colors from Word

I have a color transparency in a Word document that renders in a dithered fashion when I create the corresponding PDF document. I have tried the various pre-defined settings (standard, high quality, and press quality) as well as disabling compression and all yield the same dithered result (Acrobat 9.2.0). Below is an example.
The original image is on the left and the resulting PDF is on the right. Note that i can generate transparent colors from Illustrator using any of the redefined settings. Can anyone offer any suggestions? I assume it's an Acrobat print setting issue and i've tried a number of different setting compinations to no avail. Thanks

Thanks for replying. I've tried using PDF Maker, but it consistently hangs during the process on any file that I've tried it on. (this is a new installation of Acrobat 9 Pro.) I've tried repairing with the installation disk, but I get the same result. So it looks like I need to resolve that problem first.

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