Can't set form field properties

I'm using Acrobat Pro 9.3.1 on a Macbook Pro running Lion. When I create a form field, I can't set the properties of the field. Sometimes I get a "Bad Parameter" error message, and sometimes it just crashes the whole program. I've tried starting from a brand new, blank document right in Acrobat and get the same result when trying to set the field's properties.
However, when I use a different computer running OS X 10.6 and Acrobat Pro 8.3.0 it works just fine.
Any thoughts?

Ok, previously I was trying to do the update from within Acrobat. This time I downloaded the file and it opened a dialogue box telling me, "Please choose the copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro to update." But when I get there, I can't select it. See the screenshot.

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Error: <http://apexServer> does not have the permission to read the attribute HTMLDocument.getElementById of <http://serverx>.
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