Greetings from a newbie,

I've had a persistent problem with Acrobat Pro 6.0, which is generally a good program. But if I attempt to launch PDFMaker from within Word, it hangs forever and then pronounces the PDF failed.
I use Open Office to make my PDFs instead, but it means that Acrobat Distiller is not working. If I try to print to Acrobat from within any program, e. g. Corel, Open Office, etc., I get this message:

%%[ Error: Courier not found. Font cannot be embedded. ]%%
%%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%%

Stack:
/Font
/Courier
/courier


%%[ Flushing: rest of job (to end-of-file) will be ignored ]%%
%%[ Warning: PostScript error. No PDF file produced. ] %%

Now, obviously Courier is in the Fonts folder (I use Adobe type manager to manage my fonts, (being a graphic artist, I use a lot) but have checked the Fonts folder).
When this failure takes place, the Acrobat 3-cornered icon stays spinning in the Task tray ( the hidden bit at bottom right of the desktop), and doesn't go away until I restart the computer, which is using XP in 1.6GHz and 512 Mb memory.

Does anyone know how to shake up Acrobat Distiller? Its interface is fairly opaque. I have had this same problem on two installations on twodifferent computers.