"One and Done" Printing, Corrupt PDFs

I'm hoping someone has encountered this odd printing mis-behavior and might be able to offer a solution:
Upon printing multi-page PDFs to an HP 5640 from Tiger, my Powerbook invariably prints the first page (which, of course, is the LAST page of the document), but as the printer nears the bottom of the page, it pauses, waits for a minute or so (during which time the Deskjet 5600 utility registers the printer as printing subsequent pages), then releases that page, calling it a day. Of course, every remaining page of the document still remains undone!
I can print the document by initiating a Print command for EACH INDIVIDUAL PAGE, by specifying "Print: From Page 20 to Page 20," "Print: From Page 19 to Page 19," and so on (and have done this for the last few weeks, but this is no way to live!
On a possibly related note, the PDFs that I am trying to print often corrupt upon trying to save them to a folder, going through the motions of saving but revealing themselves as "empty" PDFs (the drawer shows an equivalent number of blank pages).
I've tried repairing permissions, to no avail. Might this be a job for Disk Utility or some other repair-oriented program, or might trashing the .plist file for Preview be the best course of action?
Any help I can find will be greatly appreciated!
Regards,
Darren

I found the answer by myself!
When I opened a PDF document in "Preview" instead of using Adobe Reader, I was able to print without any problem.
Apparently there is something in the Adobe print function that is not working correctly. Hopefully it can be fixed sometime; otherwise, I'll just use "Preview" exclusively.

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