Trouble installing Adobe PDF Printer Driver Plug-in

we are attempting to install the Adobe PDF Printer Driver Plug-in on our new macpro with osx 10.6.4. after we download the  VISE pdfen.sea file and try to open it we get the message "the document pdfen could not be opened because it is damaged or incomplete." we have downloaded from several different sources but keep getting the same message. we would appreciate any comments or advice.
thanks for your help.

The Adobe PDF Printer instance does not work in OS X.6. Please look at the announcement on the top of the Acrobat Mac forum.

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