Printout missing characters, Mac

Hi
we have a rather odd problem and as I am not too much into Macintosh and Adobe Acrobat I can't seem to find the solution.
We have official school documents that needs to be printed out, the properties of affected PDFs are produced by Oracle PDF driver, PDF version 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x)
When printing the document certain characters are simply missing on the printout, sounds like a font problem to me, Arial and ArialBold are Embedded (Subset, type TrueType (CID))
Printing it as a jpeg works fine but the quality is way too poor, printing from Windows works as well. It can't be a system font problem tho as it also works using a different third party pdf viewer on the very same system.
CS 5.5 Premium Suite
Adobe Acrobat X, 10.1.2
Applies to different Macs! Lion as well as Snow Leopard, same letters missing
Maybe someone was facing a similar issue before, couldnt find anything helpful on forums or discussion groups, at least the Oracle PDF driver seems to to cause these problems for others as well at times.
Any help is highly appreciated
Thanks

After i reboot it goes away. But comes back randomly. I thought maybe it was a network thing....i am one of 3 macs at our company. However that is not the case, as it happened at home, where i was not connected to the network.
Yes i am upgraded to the 10.4.7

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