Techniques needed for Automated (OLE) PDF Creation from Word using Adobe 9

My client currently uses Adobe 5, PDF Writer, Word and OLE automation to generate PDF files. This is done on a server. A queue of Word documents are read. A watermark is added via a VB Macro. Then, also via a macro (below) a pdf file version of the Word doc is generated. The pdf file is generated as temp.pdf, which the program uniquely renames later.
Unfortunately, Adobe 5 and PDF Writer cannot handle Chinese characters and now needs to. Seems like the process above cannot be the same with Adobe 9. How should I approach this server driven, pdf file generation from Word docs with Adobe 9? This is a 24 x 7 ongoing, 100s of documents a day process. It isn’t clear to me that PDF Writer is still an option. With Adobe 9 installed on a client, it is possible to save a Chinese character Word document using the Adobe ‘Convert to PDF’ toolbar button
Sub WritePdfFile()
    Windows(1).Activate
    ActivePrinter = "Acrobat PDFWriter"
    Application.PrintOut FileName:="", Range:=wdPrintAllDocument, Item:= _
        wdPrintDocumentContent, Copies:=1, Pages:="", PageType:=wdPrintAllPages, _
        Collate:=True, Background:=True, PrintToFile:=False
End Sub

I think that type of question would go in
Scripting http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/acrobat_scripting
or
SDK http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat/acrobat_sdk
Or, for Microsoft parts of the process, search at
http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

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