PDF snafu; font restrictions

I'm using Apple's STHeiti Regular and Light Chinese fonts in InDesign CS4. When I attempt to export to a PDF I get a "This font could not be embedded due to licensing restrictions in the font" message, and the PDF fails to export.
Creating outlines in the INDD file and support art (not a lot o' fun), eliminates all paragraph rules and other formatting, making the PDF useless.
Any workarounds/suggestions?
Thanks,
Andy

This might be little offtopic, but I think this font embedding restrictions sound really really crazy. It takes us back to dark years of 90´s when everybody sent illegal copies of fonts all over the places for printing PageMaker or Freehand files.... Cold fact is that nobody will buy a font licence for printing some other peoples InDesign files.
And that outline protection is even crazier. May I print something that has been done with outline protected font? and take photograph of it and send a photo to someone who doesn´s own the font? HUH.

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