PDFMaker for MS Word 2003 posts UnCheckout on UnSaved documents

Hi
We are getting a very strange unexpected bahavior with the PDFMaker plug-in for MS Word.
Use Case:
1. A user opens a MS Word document hosted in SharePoint.
2. Makes some changes to the document but does not hit the save button.
3. User uses Toolbar Icon or uses Adobe PDF=>Convert to Adobe PDF menu option to convert the document to PDF
The plugin sucessfully converts the document to PDF with the latest changes in it. But, somehow fires an Undo Checkout onto the document and all the changes in the document are lost. (And as an observation, this behavior is not observed with PPT files)
If steps 1-3 are performed on a .doc file present in local system drive; the plug-in pops-up a message saying
"Acrobat PDFMaker needs to save the file before continuing.
Do you want PDFMaker to save the file and continue?"
Now my question(s) is/are
1. Why plug-in didn't display any message for the document when edited from SharePoint?
2. Do we have any fix/updates to address the issue.
To help is diagnosis my environment details are
1. Windows XP SP3
2. MS Word 2003 SP3
3. SharePoint 2007
4. Adobe Acrobat 9 Standard
5. Could not figure out the version of PDFMaker plug-in
Ref: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/754639?tstart=0

Hi Michael
Thanks for your reply.
But, my question is why the PDFMaker plug-in does not display a "Save" message when the file is edited from SharePoint?

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