Win Freehand can't create PDFs correctly

Any help with the problem below would be much appreciated.
We recently upgraded to Freehand MX (11.0.2) running on 3
Windows (XP) machines but we can't create a pdf file where the
fonts are included correctly using the print to pdf option.
Freehand will also not produce a PS file for printing correctly as
the fonts are also not being included. We have checked all of the
include font options but still they do not appear to be included in
the file. Also, copy and pasting from the created pdf file creates
gibberish.
Within the pdf's document preferences the fonts show up as:
Gen.Frutiger-45-Light (Embedded Subset)
Type: Type 1
Encoding: Custom
Within the actual document page the font appears to have been
substituted with an equivalent. Outputting to an EPS also has the
same problem. And, the problem also occurs with all fonts. Freehand
9 still works OK.
So far all Adobe have said is that Freehand just doesn't
work: 'Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about this as
Freehand is a discontinued product and the compatability between
Freehand and Acrobat will not be updated'.
Has anyone else had this problem? Any help would be much
appreciated as at the moment Freehand MX is just unusable and
Adobe's opinion seems to be so what.
Thanks in anticipation

I have had the same problem in the past. In the end I got a
pro to sort it out. It would be great get some advice if the
problem occurs again.

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