PDF Maker producing invisible text

When I use PDF Maker in Word 2003 SP3 on Windows XP SP3, some of the text in my headers and footers is rendered invisibly. It's still there in the PDF, becasue I can select it in Acrobat 7.0 Professional and even cut it to the clipboard. It's just invisible.
Curiously, not all header and footer text is affected. For example, left-hand page headers appear normally, right-hand headers are invisible.
If I print to Adobe PDF, rather than using PDF Maker, the headers and footers are fine.
This has only started happening recently. A few weeks ago, I had no problems.
Any ideas?

If you really have just 7.0, then try an update (download the updates from Adobe.com > downloads > updates). Be sure to install the updates in order. The last time I thought that the font issue was big was with AA5.0, but maybe it is still and issue.

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