PDF Maker Acrobat 8.1 unavailable in Office 2007, despite Acrobat Help article

I've already tried all of the steps in Acrobat's article about this problem (1. Enabled the PDFMaker Add-In via Word Options; 2. Manually registered the COM add-in file; 3. Verified that the COM Add-In is selected; 4. Repaired the Acrobat installation; 5. Re-installed Acrobat in a simplified mode.) The COM Add-In appears and is checked in Word Options and Excel Options. I've also re-installed Office. Acrobat STILL doesn't appear on the menu for Word, Excel, etc.
Does anyone have another trick?

Your reply inspired a thought that has, in fact, solved my problem. My original installation disks are for v8.0, and so when I followed Adobe's instructions and re-installed, I eliminated all of the 8.1 updates. Interestingly, when I used Acrobat's Help Menu to check for updates it said that none were available. Last night I manually installed all the updates (v8.1.1 through 8.1.7) manually and the PDFMaker reappeared in the Office applications. Thank you for replying so promptly - I always appreciate the community's help.

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