Problem with creating/viewing PDF's from InDesign CS3

I have a problem with our PDF workflow and just cannot seem to resolve it.
The problem is as follows: My coworker and I (both designers running CS3 on iMac's running 10.5.6 Leopard) work daily on producing documents and graphic layouts.
Internally we can view and print PDF documents we create just fine with no troubles with the exception of our supervisor, who is running a mac with Tiger operating system. Our office environment is both Mac and PC. On may occasions he cannot print PDF's we create. Many times his prints will contain garbled characters, drop italics and formatting, replace fonts, or just print slowly.
This problem is also happening to our editor who is offsite. This is a fairly serious problem for her, considering her job relies heavily on being able to view and open PDF files we create. She was able to send a PDF file which shows the garbled mess her printer spit out when she printed. Apparently there were pages upon pages of messy garbled text. When documents do print from her, they are usually very slow in printing, taking up to a minute or more to print each page.
The sample of what she sent me is attached, and can also be found on my MobileMe iDisk at: http://public.me.com/rlcollier (document entitled Print Results.PDF)
My question really to the community is obviously what might be causing these problems. Its very frustrating not being able to determine if its something we're doing ourselves thats causing some incompatability or corruption in these files, or if its the users systems themselves. I can say that Debra our editor has can have a garbled mess of a 4 page file from us, and then turn around and print a graphic heavy 90 page PDF with ease from Boeing. Our PDF's seem to be the only ones she struggles with. That being said, my inclination is that its something on our end.
Any ideas of where to start looking? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated and welcomed. Thanks!

I currently had our editor test printing of some of our files using both Foxit and Adobe Reader (as was suggested) in order to see if either made a difference in her printing ability and here is what she came back with:
I tried to print out both these pdfs (David's is the one you reworked and Lisa's HESSM-3, both sent yesterday).
With Adobe: David's first page printed quickly, but it had errors (part of his pants didn't print, and there's an arbitrary shaded box in the text). Page 2 didn't print--every time I tried it had a different "offending command" code. Printing Lisa's HESSM made it up to page 7 before problems showed up (stock photo only partially printed), and it stopped on page 8 (with the random "offending command" code).
With Foxit: Both David's and the HESSM pdfs printed completely and without error...but it took a long time. David's 2 pages took about 3 to 4 minutes, and HESSM's 16 pages took close to 20 minutes. The time is in the transfer of data to the printer; the physical printing goes pretty quickly.
I cant say that I believe email is the problem, although I cant rule it out. I've tested emailing vs. passing through our workgroup with my supervisor, and it does not make any difference in his ability (or lack of ability) to print our files. He was able to print to a different printer (an HP 4650 as opposed to a 4100) without troubles. He refuses to believe its a printer problem however because PDF files originating from our office are the only ones he has trouble with. Never has he had any trouble with a single PDF file produced from any other source. This is also the case for our editor who only has trouble with PDF files originating from either mine, or my coworkers systems.
PS: I've attached both files that were referenced by our editor above for viewing/testing.

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