Acrobat 8 painfully slow on Vista

I've installed Acrobat 8 as part of CS3 Master Collection. The product is painfully slow, regularly taking 3-4 minutes or more to open/view a small file, eating virtually 100% of CPU.
Any suggestions? I see some discussion in the Mac forum about this, but no recent discussions here.
I'm using;
* Windows Vista 32-bit
* Intel Core Duo 2.13Ghz
* 2 gigs Ram
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Regards,
Derek Gould
Newfoundland, Canada

Opening Acrobat (without a document) is slow. Let me clarify; the application opens reasonably quickly, shows me the menu and a blank work area. Then, I see the hourglass and the application is unresponsive for several minutes. I can switch to other applications and they are responsive, it's just the Adobe window that is crawling. The hourglass disappears after 2-3 minutes, and then the application runs and responds normally.
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