Printing/Saving to PDF not working

When trying to save to pdf, I get this message:
"Saving a PDF file when printing is not supported. Instead, choose File > Save."
I have Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.1
So far I have been unable to save any documents to pdf. I am trying to print specific pages of an existing pdf to a new pdf with the pages I want.
Please advise.
Thanks

Hi
I see the same thing with Reader, seems they've chosen to restrict it in that fashion.
Preview works ok, but sure, doesn't open some pdf's.

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