Text knockout CS4 - white text on black urgent

I am having problems with some white text (converted to paths) which is placed on a black background.. When viewing the pdf in Illustrator (CS4), the text shows up fine. When viewing in Acrobat (which the printers will print from), the white text has disappeared. This only applies to some of the text the rest is fine. I need to set the white text not to overprint, but in the attributes box it isnt giving me the option to uncheck 'overprint'. Its grayed out. Where can I do this?
many thanks!

I don't think that's case, Peter. It looks the OP violated Dov Isaacs' first rule of PDF: Thou shalt not utilize Illustrator as a general purpose PDF editor.
The text, if I'm right was converted in ID.
If I'm wrong...well, nevermind.
Bob

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http://www.ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/
>
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