Very slow printing to default Adobe PDF printer

I have a 150 page FrameMaker document (with lots of linked Illustrator CS4 files) that is taking 7 MINUTES to print to the default Adobe PDF printer. In contrast, an old QuickSilver / Interleaf document that is 200 pages long and contains even more graphics embedded as huge TIF files, takes 20 seconds to print to the same default Adobe PDF printer.
I have tried all the suggestions I can find on the web, including Adobe forums, but nothing works. Can anyone suggest why printing from FrameMaker 9 to Adobe PDF is taking such a long time? It would appear to be a FrameMaker problem, since every other application can print to the Adobe PDF printer without any problems, and so can FrameMaker... but only at a snail's pace!
I am using TS2 (FrameMaker 9 and Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended) on a 3.0 GHz Quad Core PC running Windows XP Pro.

My computer
Windows XP Professional
Version2002
Service Pack 3
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4CPU 3.00GHz
2.99GHz, 3.25GB of RAM
Using Acrobat 8.1 Professional. (Haven't upgraded because I saw too many posts with people having problems.)
Using Adobe Design Premium CS3 (I use AI files, we always have for any vector files and way to many to change over to EPS.)
We have also been changing over from Interleaf. I really like FM except for this problem. Very glad to get out of Interleaf.
We also used InDesign for a while and there are no problems printing to pdf.
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