Illustrator CS4 to PDF, text characters lost?!

This sounds weird to me even as i type it. but i have converted a cs4 illustrator doc to a pdf and it is missing a character in one of the words. Lost during conversion??
is this some sort of fluke??
Heather

ok, i see i may be using the wrong language. the font is Minion Pro, and i did "save as" a pdf from illy CS4 and i just find it odd that this one h is missing.
it is from the outlined file which i find odd as well. this hasnt happened b4 which is why it worries me.
Embedding fonts? is this something i have to do when saving the pdf? i feel really dumb right now b-cuz this has never happened.
oh, and i attached the file, if you look in the first column of text fourth line down it reads 'ealthcare' instead of 'healthcare' which it reads in the .ai doc.
thank you everyone who is trying to help me! i really appreciate it!!!!

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