Reinstall PDF Print Driver in Mac OS X 10.6.2

I just noticed that my PDF print function no longer works. I believe it happened after I installed Snow Leopard. I reset all my printers and now I need to reinstall it. How do I go about doing that? I have Adobe CS4 which includes Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.
Thanks,
Grant

I am also having the same problem here. We recently upgraded from CS 3 to CS 5.5 and now we cannot print to pdf anymore. We are a small printshop and exporting to PDF is fine when we are creating PDF proofs for customers, however, when printing the jobs on our press you need a PDF with separations and the only way to print color separations is through the "Print to PDF" option. You do not have the separations option when exporting to PDF. Is there a different way of selecting separations now or are we just screwed? Seems like Adobe really dropped the ball on this one and I hope they come up with a fix for this VERY SOON! Right now this problem is costing us lots of money.
Shaun

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