Page length problem in PDFs generated from HTML pages in Acrobat

I just spent an exhausting 2-1/2 hours on the phone with Adobe tech support (offshore) in order to get a 5 minute fix. I figured that I'd document it here in case another user has the same problem. (I'd checked the forums and a few e-mail lists and hadn't found a solution.)
When generating PDFs from HTML (Web) pages, Acrobat squeezed all of the text into the middle of a single page (with just the last inch or so of text on page 2). This resulted in pages that Acrobat identified as being 30", 40", even 60" long, and the printed results were unusable. I haven't been able to identify an event or a system change that caused this to happen; Acrobat had been generating PDFs properly before this trouble started.
THE FIX:
1. Start Acrobat and run the Repair Installation option from the Help menu.
2. Go to C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\8.0
and rename the Preferences file to PreferencesOld. A PC restart will be
required after this change.
3. Restart Acrobat. This creates a fresh Preferences folder.
4. Test creating PDFs from a single HTML page and from multiple pages.

Thanks, Bernd, but where are these settings? While I'm writing, is there a setting to make an html file fit on one page in Acrobat?

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