Lost ability to print to .pdf in Illustrator 6

When we had to reinstall OS 10.4.11 Tiger, we lost the ability to print to .pdf in our old Illustrator 6.
Tried to add Adobe .pdf 7.0 to printer list. We have Acrobat 7 Standard. Seemed to allow the add but printer cue keeps jumping to "jobs stopped" on its own when try to create file.

Hi Gary, might try this...
Mac OS X: About the Reset Printing System feature ...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1341?viewlocale=en_US

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