InDesign Server crashes on PDF export

I've narrowed the problem down to the PDF presets we have defined.
We have two PDF Presets that we use with our InDesign Server, one for low quality and one for high quality.
When exporting a document using our high quality preset, IDS will sometimes crash altogether and will have to be restarted. We've never had this problem using our low quality preset.
The only differences between the two presets are the image compression settings. Our HQ preset is set to 200PPI for color & grayscale images, while our LQ preset is set to 72 for color and 120 for grayscale images. Also, Image quality is set to High on our HQ and Medium on our LQ preset. Those are the ONLY descrepancies between the two.
Does IDS have problems with exporting higher quality PDFs? Is this a known issue with ID?
I can lower the quality of the PDF and it seems to fix the issue, but I'd like to know why this happens. Also, the whole purpose of exporting in HQ is to have a "high quality" PDF.
Production Server Hardware -
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64
Two of these processors - Intel Xeon CPU X5570 @ 2.93 GHz - 8 cores
20 GB of memory
Software Running -
Adobe InDesign Server CS5 v 7.0.3

I don't use the server edition, but the regular version certainly doesn't have a problem with high resolution. I have once or twice, though, seen a problem with a custom preset created in an earlier version. This seems to have disappeared for me with the 7.0.3 update, though.
Prests being as easy to creat as they are, though, you might want to try remaking any problem presets, starting from one of the canned presets if possible, and see if it makes a difference.

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7   com.adobe.CoolType                  0x0100f77e CTInit + 1610274
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