Uneven text from MS Word 2007 using Acrobat 9

I'm using Acrobat 9 to create PDF files from files prepared with MS Word 2007.
This was all working well on my old XP PC. But now that I am working with Windows 7 on a new PC, I am getting a problem. The text in the PDF file is noticeably uneven compared with the text in the original Word file -- some letters are bunched together and others have relatively large spaces between them.
I have tried choosing 'High Quality Print' as an option in A9 but it makes no difference.
Any advice will be very welcome.
Gerry

OK, I thought I had solved the problem but now the problem has come back.
Using PDF Maker, I am trying to set the preferences to embed all the fonts: Under Advanced settings, I have a tick in Embedded fonts and I have unticked Subset fonts. I have also set the compatibility from 6.0 to 8.0.
The trouble is that, although I am saving these settings in the joboptions file, they keep going back to what they were.
Please could you tell me what I should set and how to make sure they don't keep going back to old settings?
Many thanks.

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