Keynote to PDF

We regularly offer a printout of our Keynote presentations and often send just a PDF version of them. However, we're running into more and more issues with the PDFs not generating correctly (some of these issues predate Snow Leopard).
Issues include: grid lines disappearing from some, but not all graphs; portions of grid lines becoming opaque around the text - with a padding of 2-3 em also affected; font sizes which are readable on one slide at that particular size and rotation are mysteriously pixelated or missing sections of the letters on a different slide; some white text showing up as a black colour unless we go in and change the opacity of that particular text from 100% to 99%; hi-res images have jagged, pixelated edges.
In addition, we are also seeing on the Keynote presentation itself (as well as PDFs) some issues where charts are not calculated correctly. While the chart data is correct and the label for a particular bar verifies this, the height of the bar displays incorrectly. In addition, sometimes, the amount of space between the bars within a set are not equal to each other.
We have tried creating PDFs in the following ways:
* print to Postscript and then generating the PDF through Distiller - this tends to give the worst results in comparison to creating the PDF directly from Keynote.
* print as PDF. This is the most likely method to generate the black text mentioned above.
* print as Adobe PDF using Standard, Print Quality or High Print Quality settings.
1) Is this simply due to Keynote being presentation software and it is just not designed for print precision?
2) What is the most accurate way to print to PDF from within Keynote? Is there a better setting or method that I've not yet found?
3) Has anyone else experienced any of these issues?
Thanks!

In what can only be a triumph of bad luck I have a medical poster (audit) to submit to the university tomorrow morning and up until tonight have made a number of changes and exported to PDF every time with no problems. I just decided to delete a pretty irrelevant bullet point and then export to send it to the uni. All images and tables within the poster are fine but the text has become pretty dire. Its illegible at best and just plain messy - its helvetica neue but looks more like comic sans in the export. Luckily I have iwork 09 on my MBP as well so am just going to continue from there but its really odd that this should happen now.
I have exported the same file on my MBP and its perfect but still not on the imac. Other files are exporting ok although I am now noticing colour changes etc. Up until tonight nothing was wrong with keynote or preview? at all.
Time machine did something odd today as I changed my external back up to a G drive (not sure if thats even relevant but just a thought - I'm not really tech savvy)
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