Word 2002 CRASHES (reproducibly) with Acrobat 9.0

The Acrobat 9.0 interface makes Word 2002 crash CONSISTENTLY whenever one tries to open certain documents.
It appears that this is caused by some monkeying with the formatting of the .doc files (!!!) and/or changes to the NORMAL.DOT files. Apparently, the PDFMaker interface hack attempts to introduce a style or macro called Style1 into the .doc file.
Uninstalling Acrobat and reinstating the original Normal.dot solved the problem, but when Acrobat was reinstalled, the problem reappeared.
Finally, it was found that simply UNINSTALLING THE PDFMaker FUNCTIONALITY from Acrobat cured this problem. (.pdf files can still be generated using the Acrobat print driver.)
If PDFMaker needs to change the formatting of the underlying .doc, it should first back up the original file and then change to a new file name. The integrity of the original Microsoft file must be sacrosanct.
Perhaps Adobe could look into this URGENTLY and release a fix. It is UNACCEPTABLE for sophisticated commercial production software to CRIPPLE any version Microsoft Word.
Ben.

Hi Steve,
fwiw - at the Forums' entry http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa
there is this announcement.
Announcement: File Attachments Temporarily Disabled
Hide Details
We have temporarily disabled the ability to upload files to the forums in order to protect our customers/users from a potential security issue. Thank you for your patience while we mitigate this issue.
by adobe-admin at Feb 22, 2010 12:20 PM
So a file attachment may not be an option (?).
Be well...

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