Now I can't print to the Adobe PDF printer

At the same time I started having problems updating Acrobat (see my post yesterday, please), my Adobe PDF printer disappeared from system preferences. I've added it back using the help>repair option, but the printer no longer works.
Every time I try to print, the printer pauses, then when I restart it and try to resume the document I get an error...
Operation could not be completed
Client-error-not-possible
I've done a complete uninstall/reinstall of the whole Design Standard CS3 suite 3 times now, including removing my prefs and serial number (so starting from scratch), but this error, and the Acrobat updating problem, won't go away.
Please can someone help me on these?
Thanks, Nige

Try going to Printer Utility and deleting any reference to the adobe Pdf Printer Driver.
Then you find file anlocate all versions of PDF Printer. remove all traces of version Previous to this version.
Now open Acrobat and got to help menu repair and replace and have it repair the Printer Driver again.
Note: PDF Printer does not work within Acrobat nor Reader. only with other applications. (Or at least I've never been able to have it work within Acrobat/Reader.)

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