Hundreds of Duplicate Embedded Fonts in PDF Makes it HUGE

Hello!
I have a document (word docx file) that is over 150+ pages long. When I print to Adobe Acrobat Pro - it crashes. When I open the document in Preview, it looks fine - but after saving the file as a PDF, the file size is HUGE (over 250+ mb in size). It contains no images, and only a handful of fonts.
The huge PDF file opens fine with Preview and Acrobat after saving it from Preview. So, I uploaded it to my printer's servers (Lulu, the document is a manuscript), and a few days later I get a RIP error during the printing process. Lulu reports they can not print the PDF.
So, I spent many hours trying several other solutions - including saving as a postscript file directly - but the files always end up being huge. Finally, this morning, I thought to inspect the PDF file created by Preview... and I found that there were literally thousands of duplicate embedded fonts in the PDF file. Garamond, for example, was embedded over 15,000 times...
I can't seem to get Adobe's postscript printer to work in OSX 10.5 with this file (it crashes due to a memory overload). Also, the Preview file always includes thousands of duplicate fonts embedded (is this a Quartz Filter issue?)
ANY help would be appreciated. Basically what I want to do is have OSX produce a normal PDF with each font only embedded once.
Anyone have any clues?
(I've tried ghostscript, PDFshrinker, different quartz filters, etc... can't seem to figure this out...)

I believe I have found the problem. Something from what you wrote made me think about how OS X fonts are really "pretty" -- after looking into it... the tech term is that OSX uses "ligatures" between characters in fonts that have them. Wel... ALL the fonts I use include these so-called ligatures, which can cause problems when the Word Doc is viewed on Windows machines... i didn't think this would matter with PDF's... but.. I went back into Word,switched to "publisher view" (which is the only way to access Word's ligatures option) turned Ligatures OFF and then produced the PDF as usual
VOILA!!!
The PDF was 80mb, and all the fonts were embedded ONCE each. After running Adobe Acrobat Pro's PDF Optimizer for Prepress the file dropped to 20MB!
I've uploaded it to LULU... I'm fairly sure this will work
THANK YOU for the discussion... I'm not sure what it was; (it was late at night)... but this discussion has really helped!

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