Cannot open pdfs since update.

I recently updated Adobe Reader and since then I can no longer open some of my archived pdf's that used to open just fine. This is pretty critical especially with tax time coming up. I get the message below.
Acrobat could not open '*.pdf' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).
To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the document to Adobe PDF.
Thanks for any suggestions.

Yeah, I'm gonna add my frustration to this topic. We have a Vista system running 10.1.4 and a Win7 system running 11.0.01. Both of these systems will no longer open our fax service-generated PDF files. PDF files from other sources still open okay. The help document at http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/pdf-error-1015-11001-update.html is useless as those directory keys do not appear to exist in either our Win7 or Vista systems and I cannot find an equivalent setting.
Reverting the Win7 system back to 10.1.4 solves the issue. And we have a Vista system running 9.5 which appears to work. So the problem surfaces ONLY when running the latest version and the latest revision on a particular platform. It is highly unlikely that we can get our third-party fax service to rewrite their PDF format anytime soon. So we are at the mercy of Adobe to provide some sort of relief - possibly in the form of a Preferences setting.
UPDATE: In re-reading the article, I caught that if the key did not exist, I needed to create it. That worked on both systems. It was easier to do using the HKCU setting as the structure was already there.

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