PDF Bloating in size

Hello,
We create some fancy and a lot of no-fancy PDF's in our shop.  I am currently working with a no-fancy PDF with a few lines, headings and text fields.  A colleague of mine wanted to move a text field by a bit.  I did that and when I saved the file (using File > Save as > Optimized PDF) the file size jumped from 9K to 12K.  I had customized settings for Optimized PDF for low resolution etc.,
Since this is a highly intensive application and gets used quite a lot, bandwidth really matters.  I am curious to know why moving a text field causes an increase in size.  Secondly, we are getting big on creating PDF"s all the time - Is there a tutorial to create the smallest size PDF's?  I would like to create PDF"s of the least possible size.  Currently we use Word to create all the static stuff, save it as a PDF and then create text fields for the dynamic stuff using Adobe Pro.
Thanks for your time.  I would really appreciate any input you could provide.
Adobe Pro 9.3.2 on Windows XP

Ah ha!
When printing the PDF file I needed to change the page scaling from 'shrink to fit' to 'None'
Fixed!

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