Garbled text after inserting a converted MS Word Doc into PDF

I am on a PC running XP professional using Word 2003 and Acrobat Pro v.8.
I successfully converted a variety of MS Office (Word, Excel,PowerPoint) documents into Acrobat Pro v8 PDF files. I then took all of these individually converted PDF files and merged into one large PDF file.
As stated, I verified that the documents converted successfully to individual PDF files, but when merging the files into one PDF file, some of the headers and/or text in the body contains garbled/scrambled text.
This is a massive project and I am pushing 300 pages. Does anyone have any suggestions to solve this problem. I have tried converting them through Word and Acrobat Pro with no luck.
Thank you,
Chad

After much tinkering around, I have finally solved the issue of the garbled text upon insertion of a converted file into a PDF file:
1. In Word, click on the Adobe PDF tab
2. click "change conversion settings"
3. click on Settings tab (may be default tab)
4. put a check in the box that says "PDF/A-1a; 2005 compliant file"
5. click ok
6. convert to PDF file
7. inserted converted PDF file into another PDF
I confirmed that my file now converts properly and there is no garbled text!
I do not know what "PDF/A-1a; 2005 compliant file" is, but it worked!

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