Strange issue when printing PDF's

This problem started the other day. Whenever I scan to a pdf file or Save as from Illustrator the PDF looks fine (using the High Quality Setting) but prints out like a rastered high contrast jpeg image (with artifacting around all the edges of text and images). I thought this was a Distiller issue and checked all my settings. No Luck.
This morning I opened and tried to print a clients file and same thing happened. The problem occurs to both black & White laser printer as well as Epson R2400
I am using CS3  Updated to version 8.1.4 this morning on a windows vista machine.I would reinstall acrobat but when I had to do that a previous time, Vista and Acrobat would not play nice and I could never get Acrobat to install completely until I reformatted my whole drive and started from scratch. I do not have the time or want to try that again.
Could the preference file be bad? And where is that located?
Thanks,

This is not a scanning resolution factor and I have been scanning this way for years. These scans are not photos but documents. This problem just started.  And as I said before, the problem also occurs when doing a save as from Illustrator, as well as supplied files from clients, so the scanning process has nothing to do with it. I just can't get them to print right.

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