How to enable Adobe PDF Printer in Acrobat Pro 9.4??

I cannot print pdf documents in Acrobat 9.4!! Major Problem!!
Running a new PC with Windows 7 (64 bit) and Office pro 2010 + firefox 3.6.13.
New version of Acrobat 9.4. was installed.
** The Problem is I am unable to print/save any PDF files because PDF printer does not work.
When I attempt to print a PDF file from any other program (Office, Outlook, or Firefox) and then select PDFprint printer, I get an error message that the print command has failed and that the host program (e.g. firefox, outlook etc needs to restart!
Unable to save PDF files from web or from any other program.
Many attempts were made to fix, repair, or reinstall acrobat 9 have all failed to correct this.
Please provide help.
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Additional comment to Adobe: Accessing help from the new Adobe web site is extremely difficult and complex.
The various instructions to find help support are very difficult, unclear, incomplete and poorly presented.
Mark Molliver, M.D.
[email address removed by host]

Adobe has not released a copy of Acorbat that fully works with Windows 7 64bit and Office 2010.
Have you looked at "Save at PDF/XPS" in MS Office?
You may need to run the applications in the 32bit mode.

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