IE8 & MS Paint crash and restart during print to Adobe PDF (Acrobat 9 Pro)

The only thing that links all these systems is the operating system. Is it possible that something in the OS is corrupt so that the Adobe PDF printer calls some OS routines that in turn corrupt IE and Paint? I've never heard about such a problem (and I've worked a lot with Acrobat over the years) so I would find it very unlikely that Acrobat is the cause of this.

Both programs will print to pdf by changing the printer preference default setting for Adobe PDF Output Folder from "Prompt to Adobe PDF filename" to only other option being "Documents\*pdf"

This option will work but if the file name it is printing as already exists and "Ask to replace existing PDF file" is checked, the programs will crash. (very very weird)

Something in the process to engage the prompt causes the programs to crash, and this can actually be observed during the print process where the prompt begins right before the crash.