Who needs Acrobat's PDF baloney in the Microsoft Suite, anyway? Just "Save to PDF" and use the "Big Guns" for other situations.

In the meantime, here's how to solve this issue:

Do a Find for "PDFMaker". You'll discover three such items in three different Microsoft "Startup Folders": Word, Excel, PowerPoint. These files are called PDFMaker.dot, PDFMaker.xla and PDFMaker.ppa.

Open each folder individually and drag the respective PDFMaker file out. Then make a folder within the chosen "Startup Folder" and give it exactly the same name as the file you drug out.

Example: In the Word "Startup Folder," drag out "PDFMaker.dot" and make a folder therein with the same name.

Next time you open Acrobat, you might get a message about its wanting to "fix" things. Say "No," and then "Don't Ever Ask Me Again, Dammit."

And there it is.