Acrobat 8 closes abruptly after opening .pdf file

I made the mistake of installing Reader 9 while keeping Acrobat 8 on my Vista machine. (I did not see any notice on the Reader 9 download page that you could not have two different versions of the program on the same machine.)
I uninstalled Reader 9 and "Repaired" Acrobat 8.
Now I open a .pdf file and it comes on the monitor for about 10 seconds then abruptly closes Acrobat 8.
Please help.
Thank you.

I have attempted to install Adobe Acrobat 8 on my Windows XP SP3 PC. It would install just fine, but when I would attempt to open a PDF, it would show the first page and then stop responding. So I used the uninstall program, but it locked up and never finished. Now I am trying to install Adobe Reader 9 instead and I get an error message that says previous install still running, stop before continuing. The previous install does not show up anywhere though. What do I do?
I really want to install Acrobat 8 and be done with it. Any ideas?

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I've read this is something related to Licensing, I've tried a couple of things but nothing works.
Could anyone help me out? Meanwhile, my thesis doesn't advance because all my readings are on .pdf!!!
Thank you so much in advance
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[New Thread 0x7fffe94a7700 (LWP 3854)]
[New Thread 0x7fffe8c20700 (LWP 3855)]
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[New Thread 0x7fffd2f8d700 (LWP 3857)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd278c700 (LWP 3858)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd1f8b700 (LWP 3859)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd178a700 (LWP 3860)]
[New Thread 0x7fffd0f89700 (LWP 3861)]
[New Thread 0x7fffcbfff700 (LWP 3862)]
[New Thread 0x7fffcb7fe700 (LWP 3863)]
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