I cannot print to pdf using acrobat 8 on windows 7 64bit

I recently upgraded to windows 7 and have installed CS3 (Acrobat 8).  Whenever I try to print a document to PDF it gets stuck in the print que and has an error printing.

Drivers (especially printer drivers) are the first casualties of a system upgrade.

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