Text quality when exporting to PDF -- CS4

Hi,
Whenever I export my InDesign document to a "high quality print" (PDF) or any PDF preset, for that matter, the text becomes "chunky." The picture below illustrates the problem. The text on the left is how the text appears in InDesign, while the text on the right is how the text appears after exported to a PDF. I have used system fonts and the problem still persists. When I first installed InDesign, I never had this problem, but after having to reinstall it, my exported PDFs look terrible. How can I get the text to appear as it does in InDesign when exporting to a PDF?
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/549/fontsf.jpg
Thanks!

Acrobat, and Reader, have user preferences, just like other Adobe programs, and you can turn smoothing on or off for text and lineart (this also affects "stitching" on PDFs made with flattened transparency).
InDesign automatically tries to embed all but the most complex (read CJK) fonts when exporting, and should throw a warning, if you haven't turned it off, when it cannot embed due to font licensing restrictions (in which case I would change the font). Printing to PDF requires that font embedding be enabled in the joboptions that are used by distiller, and those options are quite flexible as far as all, none, or some (i.e. you can designate fonts to always embed or never embed).

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