PNGs in Word 2007 get scrambled, sometimes

I have a Word 2007 doc "doc A" with a number of PNGs in it (these were exported from ArcMap). When I use Acrobat X Pro to convert to pdf (Standard quality, did not change any of the settings), the resulting pdf has the PNGs scrambled about 50% of the time. I attached an example below.
I copied some of the PNGs from doc A into a new word doc, and those converted to pdf just fine. So that made me think it was something about this particular doc. Then I deleted one of the PNGs in doc A, and re-inserted the origninal PNG file. It turned out scrambled. So that made be think again that it was something with the image.
By the way, all of these images were exported to PNGs by the same person, mostly on the same day, etc.
JPGs in doc A are always fine.
Also, the same scrambled PNG can be converted directly to pdfs (from original files, not part of a word doc) with no problem.
I guess my question is, based on the symptoms in this image below, can anyone guess the problem?
Thanks!

Thanks for all of those suggestions, Bill. I believe that I tried all of them - the plug-in, the program itself, and the printing feature. Also I found a version of Acrobat 9, but it had the same problem. Interestingly, the best of all options was the print-to-pdf feature, although it still scrambled the PNGs, it was to a much lesser degree. I also tried changing the settings in Acrobat to essentially not compress the images at all.
My conclusion was to agree with you - the problem lies with Word, not with Adobe's software. I was not about to convert the file to another version of Word because it was a 300+ page document with lots of complicated formatting. Word is not good at coverting that stuff between versions.
My solution was to convert the 45 or so PNG files (the individual files, not the ones in the Word doc) to jpgs using Acrobat and then insert the JPGs into the Word doc, replacing the PNGs. Not elegent, but it didn't take nearly as long as any other solution!
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    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893672/en-us (for Word 2007/2010/2013)
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