Missing words and lines in PDF

Platform/tools:
Windows XP Pro SP 2 or later
FrameMaker 7.2
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional (part of CS3)
Adobe PDF print driver setting: High Quality Print, black and white (rather than color)
When I create a PDF from FrameMaker, my process is to print to a PS file, then distill separately to create the PDF. This all used to work fine, but recently, I have the following consistent problem:
Words and whole lines are missing. It seems as though they are near where I use an italic character format (which is an actual format I've created in FrameMaker, not the kind applied with Ctrl-i). However, that same character format never was a problem before, nor did I have missing text.
If I take the same files over to my older computer, with FrameMaker 7.1 and Acrobat 7, and print to a PS file and then distill, the PDF file is perfectly fine.
Perhaps somehow the Adobe PDF driver (and possibly other printer drivers) got corrupted? If so, how can I fix that? I dread thinking that I will have to uninstall and reinstall CS3, since, for some reason, the process of uninstalling takes many hours.
Or, is there another thing that causes this kind of problem?
Any help would be so appreciated!

Marina,
Take a look at the following from Microsoft:
This may cure your problem.
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