Save as PDF dialog popping under all other windows using Acrobat 9

One of my clients recently upgraded a bunch of their workstations to Windows 7 64bit Enterprise edition. Now when they try to print to a PDF by selecting the print option in any application and then selecting the PDF printer, the dialog box pops under all the other windows. The result is the application appears to freeze, as it is stuck at the 'now printing' screen. See the below screenshot for a sample. Meanwhile, the save as PDF dialog is still there and if you click on the blank icon you can see in the attached screenshot, the dialog will pop up and you can finish making the PDF.
Steps I've already taken to try to resolve this include: running a repair of acrobat, uninstalling and reinstalling acrobat and removing and adding the PDF printer. So far none of this has had any effect. I'm using the current (that is 9.3.2) patch revision for acrobat.
Any help/suggestions would be most welcome!

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