Save as Aobe PDF problem

Hi All.
Just installed CS5 yesterday. Running Mac OS 10.6.4.
Tried to save a document as a pdf via print > save as adobe pdf.
Error message: Save as Adobe PDF not supported.
Not that it worked in CS4 either.
Export as pdf gives me transparency problems like white lines, bounding boxes, etc.
I guess Adobe is taking us back in time to PostScript files and Distiller.
Maybe after next version we'll have to go back to X-acto knives, wax, and paste-up. . . .
Can anyone offfer any help?
Thanx.

Okay. I ganged several positions on a sheet. All pdf's. The problem was there on one of the positions (2-3 year old file from archives), on screen in Acrobat pro. Usually, I can get it to go away by disabling "smooth line art" and "smooth images" in the prefs.
This time I could not.
When I did a distill, it did go away, for some reason, and not with export, any compatibility.
However, after reading your post, I retraced my steps. I regenerated a pdf of that position, and that solved the problem, even with export, even with acrobat 4 compatibility. So it seems there was something inherently wrong with that file, even though distiller got rid of it somehow.
Thanx for all your help.
Wish Apple and Adobe would stop bickering and fix this darn mess.

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