Acrobat 5.0.5 text disappears in Free Text Tool

Ok it's an oldie, but it's a goodie.  I love my Acrobat 5.0.5, and never had any reason to upgrade.  Well once.  From 5.0 to 5.0.5.  I have used my license on three different machine builds.  95, 2K and now XP Pro 64 bit and it still works great.  (Yes, this program has outlived 2 older computers!)  Well.  Until yesterday.  Suddenly when I create a free text box, and type in there, the text disappears.  This happened once before a few years back, and I have forgotten what the fix was, but I do believe that was why I upgraded from 5.0 to 5.0.5.  Now it is happening again.
Now for the real kick in the pants.  I tried to reinstall my product, thinking to correct the problem, and all of a sudden Adobe doesn't like my several years old serial number.  I get the error message that it isn't valid.  And it IS a valid license, just a really OLD one.  I only used it for the latest install of this, my same program, about a year ago, maybe a little more than a year.
I tried to just run the 5.0.5 update program again and it says the program isn't even installed to update.  What the heck?  OF COURSE IT IS.
I'm very frustrated and disappointed, as this is an old favorite of mine and I hate to think that Adobe has rused it so that it just won't work anymore to force me to purchase a newer version, when I didn't need a newer version.
If someone familiar with this old version of Acrobat could help me resolve this issue, I would very much appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.

The 64 bit OS can run most 32 bit applications just fine if you set it up right, and as I stated, this issue is not a compatibility issue, but a recurring issue within the application itself that also plagued me once upon a time when I ran it under Win 2k.  Apparently an Adobe bug, and I suspect it is more related to the forced download of an updated version of the basic acrobat reader (due to Adobe inflicted browser issues)  than it is with a Windows update.  In my case, I set all of my old 32 bit applications up on a separate drive.  I never default install programs on the main OS drive if it can be helped.  Some of them I have to click the actual application *.exe or shortcut, because "open with" absolutely will not work, even if it is set as the default application for certain extensions.  You will get an error message about it not being a valid Win32 application.  From the program itself, however, once it is launched, it is never a problem to browse to and open the correct data file.
I even went so far as to install the Adobe basic reader when I was forced to do so, on a completely separate drive from my Acrobat 5 because I am well aware that previously caused problems as well, and never EVER let the application make its automatic updates from Adobe.... EITHER of them, actually.  I suspect it was one of those snuck through and not a Windows update that caused it, although the possibility exists, I suspect Adobe does whatever it can to sell more software.

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