Acrobat 8.1 Bombing Regularly

My disappointment with Acrobat Standard continues to grow. I rely heavily on Acrobat throughout each and every day, but the program regularly bombs -- probably once every other day.
I have tried uninstalling and completely reinstalling on a few different occasions, but this never helps.
The problem of the program regularly bombing was also something I dealt with in version 7 as well. I thought that upgrading to version 8 (a little less than one year ago) would hopefully solve the problem -- I thought it might be something inherent in version 7 -- but version 8 has proven to be just as much of a headache.
I'm not really sure there is anything that can be done to troubleshoot this problem; attempting to work with Acrobat support 8-10 months ago didn't really prove to be successful. We thought we had a solution in place, but the program started regularly bombing the very next day. We never followed up with tech support because they really didn't have any answers in the first place.
I guess I'm just hoping -- probably hoping against hope -- that someone out there has experienced a similar problem and has overcome it... somehow.
(At this point I'm seriously thinking of going over to Nuance's PDF Maker program. Hopefully it will prove to be much more stable...)

The program generally freezes -- the vast majority of the time -- when I have converted a webpage to a PDF document. Generally these webpages are just editorials from newspapers -- documents that contain almost no graphics whatsoever.
I will switch over to the newly created PDF and after about 10-20 seconds of reading this editorial, it will freeze and I will get the normal error messages (Vista).
(I read a lot of editorials each and every day -- part of my job -- and it's much easier to convert them to a PDF document because the text becomes much larger and easier to read... just in case anyone was interested as to why I was doing this.)
As far as other major programs running in the background: I generally only have Firefox, Microsoft Outlook (2007), and Microsoft Word (2007) running at the same time. That's it.
I'm running the 32-bit version of Windows Vista Ultimate.
I do not have any third-party plug-ins installed with Acrobat.... at least I don't believe so. Never have done anything like this with either version 7 or version 8.
I do not have Microsoft Live OneCare installed. I have no other versions of Acrobat or Acrobat Reader installed.
I have not tried starting Acrobat without the plug-ins installed as you have suggested, but will do so (even though I don't have any third-party plug-ins that I know of).
Thanks for everyone's help!

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