Acrobat Pro Freezes completely so I need to Force Quit

I hope I am posting in the right place.  Please let me know if I should move this.  I am so desperate-- I have tried everything I can think of and I hope someone has another idea I can try. 
I am using Acrobat Pro.  When the problem started I was using Pro X.  I tried upgrading to the trial Acrobat XI to see if that fixed the problem, but it didn't.  I don't care which I use as long as it works.
The program starts up, but I can't click on any of the choices on the "splash screen" (where you can choose Open a Recent File or Select a Task).  When I roll over the choices I see the rollover highlight, but nothing happens when I click.  I can open a file from the FILE menu, but when I do I can't do anything with it.  None of the tools on the window tool bar work.  Then the whole thing freezes and I have to Force Quit to close the program.
I am on a Mac running Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.5 with a 3.2 GHz Intel Cose i3 processor and 12 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 memory.  When the problem started I was using Lion 10.7.5, so I tried upgrading to Mountain Lion, but it didn't fix the problem.
Here is what I have tried:
> Uninstalling and reinstalling Acrobat Pro X numerous times
> Installing, uninstalling, reinstalling Acrobat Pro XI
> Installing in Safe Mode
> Uninstalling every other Adobe product I had (After Effects Trial, inDesign 5, Adobe Reader)
I also tried various things I found in the Forums-- so many that I can't remember now.  One had to do with moving certain preference files and opening the program again, one was the fix for a CS6 conflict problem.
When the problem first started I discovered that my Time Machine backup was not working because my backup disc was full and Time Machine wasn't deleting the old backups.  I didn't have a recent backup so I didn't want to do a system restore to before the problem.  I got a new 4TB external drive for Time Machine, and got a 3TB external drive to clear a bunch of large documents off my main hard drive.
I am willing to try anything.  Please help!!!
Katie

Well, after two weeks of pulling my hair out I finally figured it out last night!  The problem was a bad mouse driver.  I use an Evoluent mouse (which I LOVE) but it is an older model and I suppose the update from OX 10.7.4 to 10.7.5 just kicked the driver into incompatiblity.  I had tested the mouse a week or so ago and my Mac wireless mouse worked but didn't solve the problem because when I did the test I didn't actually unplug the Evoluent mouse.  Once I did that last night, and used only the Mac wireless mouse, Acrobat went back to working properly.
I just ordered the newest Evoluent mouse which is compatible with OS X.  I can't wait for it to arrive tomorrow!!
Thank you to everyone who viewed this question and tried to think of a solution.
Katie

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