Problems saving to pdf files with adobe acrobat on imac

I have just installed and activated Adobe Acrobat 9.0 on my new iMac OS X 10.8.2, but it keeps coming up with an error message when trying to save a powerpoint presentation to a pdf file. I have downloaded all updates, painfully, one by one, from 9.1 to 9.5.3, but still to no avail. Any suggestions to get Acrobat up and running. Unfortunately, customer support from Adobe a big fat zero.

Are you trying to view PDF forms? If so then you may want to use Adobe Reader. You can find the download for Adobe Reader at http://get.adobe.com/reader/.

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