Firefox 15 freezes on printing PDF to Adobe PDF Creator printer

I just installed Firefox 15.0.1 on WIndows XP SP2. Also installed NoScript 2.5.5 and DownloadHelper 4.9.9, current Flash plugin and Shockwave.
The browser seems to print fine to all my physical printers. But when I attempt to print to the Adobe PDF printer driver, Firefox freezes. Windows XP's spooler reports that a job is being spooled to the queue but it seems Firefox never opens up the PDF WIndows File dialog to create and save the file. I must force-close Firefox from the Task Manager, it is frozen solid.
Upon force-close, Windows reports that a print job was sent to the Adobe PDF printer (I turned on notifications).
I have attempted running Firefox in Safe Mode. I have attempted to reset printer in about:config; I have removed all printer lines in prefs.js. I have disabled both plugins (the only 2 enabled when running in standard mode), I have checked Page Setup specs.
I have no crash ID as I must force-close the program in order to get out of it, it never recovers.
It seems from here that Firefox is failing to open up the File dialog for the PDF, and therefore it simply hangs waiting for the PDF driver to unlock it and return focus.
Any help would be appreciated! I am using the same version of the PDF converter driver on another machine, also running WIndows XP SP2, running Firefox 3.6, and it gives me no problems whatsoever.

In some versions of Acrobat, there are two printers created. If you have one named "Distiller" could you try printing to that one?
You also could reset the printing preferences stored by Firefox.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(2) In the filter box, type or paste '''printer''' and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Right-click '''print.print_printer''' and choose Reset. You can reset your Adobe PDF printer-specific settings as well, which will take many clicks....
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