Garbled result when converting MS Word doc to pdf.

I am on a PC running XP professional using Word 2003 and Acrobat Pro (CS3) v.8.
Recently, after converting a variety of MS Office documents successfully from Acrobat Pro v8 with updates applied, I can no longer successfully convert these files. The converted documents are a jumble of symbols and characters. They look somewhat like a postscript file printed on a non-postscript printer.
All the programs have been re-installed and the problem still exists. Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this problem. I have tried converting them through Word and Acrobat Pro with no luck.
HELP!

The only problem I have now is printing acrobat 4 pdf files through Mozilla Firefox Vers. 3.0.1. Acrobat 7 reader is also installed and IE 7 prints the pdfs just fine. I also printed pdfs through some local apps I use just to be sure the problem is possibly isolated to a call through Mozilla Browser versus anything else. As I recall, I also had this problem prior to Mozilla and XPSP3 upgrades. So now I just print through through IE, as a workaround.
I do not have MS Word installed...yet, but do have Open Office installed, so for the moment my problem is solved.
Hope this helps.

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