Making a pdf of an InDesign Booklet

Ever since I installed Snow Leopard I have not been able to format InDesign booklets into a pdf. I have read many postings on this topic but nothing has worked so far. The best I have come up with is for me to de-install Snow Leopard and go back to Leopard (where is was totally easy to do this simple task). Any suggestions?

What version of InDesign are you using?
What exactly is the problem you are having? I assume you are using the PDF Export Presets in InDesign to make the PDFs? Why doesn't it work? Grayed out? Nothing happens or the PDFs don't work?
Please explain in more detail.
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