PDFs printing wrong colours

Hi there
Hoping someone can help me. I have a cd cover going to print on Monday, ive designed it in photoshop and illustrator cs5. It looks fine on screen and prints out fine from these programs but when i pdf it the colours go so dark you can barely make it out. Pdf looks fine on screen, its only when i print. Theres no way i can send it when its printing out like this! I have tried pdfing from illustrator and photoshop and the colours print as badly on both. I think this is the first time i have printed pdf from CS5. I have been up all night trying to work out whats going on. Ive tried printing out old pdf files created in CS3 and they are printing ok. Please could someone give me some advice, im going crazy!
Thanks
Lisa

PS
if you are caught on a deadline and can't figure Acrobat printing out, not to worry, do your proofing in Photoshop
as long as you have a 'calibrated' monitor, Photoshop will display color correctly (using the correct Source Profile) and "Soft Proof" your printer's recommended Printer Profile to doublecheck any gamut issues
just be sure to embed ICC profiles in your documents and make sure your people downstream use your embedded profile

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