Duplicate Adobe PDF printers won't hold page size setting

I'm running Acrobat Professional 9.1.1 and 8.1.3 on two separate Windows XP Professional SP3 computers.
We have an Excel 2003 spreadsheet that we're trying to print to PDF on A4 paper size. When printing from Excel, we select the Adobe PDF print driver, click Properties, then change the Adobe PDF Page Size setting to A4. We double-checked under the Paper/Quality tab to make sure the size stuck, and it did. When it actually finishes creating the PDF, however, it's still Letter sized. The only way to make force it to create A4 is to go into Printers & Faxes and change the default size there...which is way too much work to have to do every time we need to change paper sizes. I would think it would be possible directly within the print dialog box (otherwise, why would they bother including it there?).
I thought I could do a work-around and duplicate the Adobe PDF print driver with a different name and set the duplicate to A4 size while the regular one would be at Letter size. This works fine when I'm logged in as an administrator. If I log into my computer as a general user however, the duplicate driver shows up, but even when we go into Printers & Faxes and set the paper size to A4, the size doesn't stick when selecting that duplicate print driver when printing from Excel. The same scenario recreates itself on any computer here, whether using Acrobat 8 Pro or Acrobat 9 Pro.
Any thoughts on this?

I already described how to get rid of that months ago.
It rely upon a bit of surgerty.
ctrl + click the Pages icon to get the menu item "Show package contents"
Navigate in the package to open the
<startupVolume>:Applications:iWork '09:Pages.app:Contents:Resources:Templates:
folder.
Then, ctrl click the template of your choice .
You will reach two files :
index-iso.xml.template
and
index-trad.xml.template
Duplicate both of them for safe.
Delete the file entitled
index-iso.xml.template
then rename
index-trad.xml.template
as
index-iso.xml.template
As the computers are dumbs, yours will be fooled and will use the file named index-iso.xml.template whose contents will be the index-trad.xml.template one.
Apply the scheme to every template which you really use.
If I remember well, I wrote a script applying this process to every templates delivered in the box but I'm too lazy to search for it.
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