Adobe Patch Files:  What??

FYI:  Mac OS 10.6.6  Using LR 3.3 and PSE 9  plus Acrobat (free), and Flash
HD>User>Home>Applications>Adobe  in my Adobe Folder, in addition to the apps, there is a file <AdobePatchFiles> with two Folders:
{F1469F01-D291-4C09-BC44-962823C175EC} and {A189C479-C7CD-4E08-8CCF-D999B68C0C71}
Each has many pages and each page has a huge amount of programming.
What is it and can it be deleted, without problems??
Thank you,
Ed

Well done clevermonkey, interesting site. [you got a "solved"]
it appears that Adobe, like Apple, covers their posterior at every op and disclose as little as possible .   Thankfully there are
some smart monkeys to help us apes out...  I have enough of Adobe cluttering up my Pictures folder.
Thank you,  I AM deleting and see what happens.
       ed

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