Acrobat won't open from my CS5 install

All,
I have searched here, in the Acrobat forum, too, and the Acrobat people all threw up their hands and pointed me back here.
I have Photoshop CS5 Extended and CS4. Acrobat Pro comes with CS4. For some time I have not been able to open a PDF when the CS4 or PS software is not running. I get an onj-screen message: "Acrobat was installed as part of a suite. To open a document you must be running another program of the software." (I haven't got that second sentence quite right.) I believe this isn't the intention of Adobe when they included the Acrobat software.
I have downloaded the free Reader, too.
Any suggestions for making this work?
Win7 64-bit OS, lots of RAM, i7-920 processor.
jonathan7007

I get an onj-screen message: "Acrobat was installed as part of a suite. To open a document you must be running another program of the software." (I haven't got that second sentence quite right.)
You are misunderstanding and indeed get it wrong. It tells you that you need to run another program from the suite to serialize Acrobat. However, that never happens in your case because the activation doesn't stick. This could be anything from permission issues to problems with your harddrive (using an SSD by any chance?). Definitely make sure to run as admin at least once to properly activate and also check your permissions or security tools liek virus scanners that may interfere.
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