Export PDF InDesign to Acrobat 5 - Text display & print GLITCH- letters overlap/stack in some words

Hello,
This is my first post, so please be gentle
I'm having an issue with certain words and linked graphics when viewing and printing PDFs exported from InDesign CS5.5 to Acrobat 5.
The glitchy words appear to have the letters stacked on top of eachother creating a garbled mess.
When I scroll up/down in Acrobat 5, the word will change appearance... sometimes okay, sometimes messed up. The document will print as it's displayed in Acrobat (good or bad).
This issue is inconsistent... sometimes the same paragraph style or graphic used in other areas of the document will never look corrupt. The ones that display this issue always waivers back & forth.
This doesn't seem to be an issue in later versions of Acrobat. However, our company still has MANY users on Acrobat 5 and exporting to later versions will cause major compatibility problems.
Can someone tell me what could be causing this issue, and how I can correct it?
Please see attached example below.
Software / System details:
Operating system is Windows XP
View / Print from Acrobat 5.0.0 (3/22/2001)
File created in InDesign CS5.5 (version 7.5.1) <---Update 12/8/11 2:53PM EST: Upgraded to version 7.5.2... Problem persists.
Graphics created in Illustrator CS5.1 (version 15.1.0)
The graphic is a black box with white text (Arial font) created in Illustrator CS5.1, and saved as AI file. Linked in InDesign file as anchored graphic.
The text is set up in InDesign as a paragraph style with first word as a nested style. ALL text is Arial font.
Message was edited by: crusius2
***UPDATE 12/9/11 10:35AM EST:
When I embed the Arial font upon export from InDesign (Subset fonts when percent of characters used is less than 0%), the problem words appear okay.
Why would there be an issue subsetting Arial font? I could understand if the font was unusual, but Arial????
So, the only solutions I could come up with is either print to pdf, or export with embedding all fonts (increases file size). If anyone has a better solution, please let me know.
Thanks, crusius2.

After a few rounds of testing various things:
I applied a Master Page of None to all the pages - and the pages exported correctly.
I reapplied all the master pages to the various pages as needed. And again it exported incorrectly.
I deleted all the Master Pages - recreated them and reapplied them - and it's all working as normal.
Cause seems to be some sort of corruption with the Master Pages.

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