Acrobat 8 Pro keeps giving me a "...has stopped working" popup, but....

it's still running and working fine. And even when it's not running, nor have I used it in a while, out of nowhere I'll get a popup saying "Adobe Acrobat 8 has stopped working". Intersting. How can it stop working if it isn't running? And when it's open and I get the popup, why doesn't it shut down? Very odd and mostly annoying. I'm running Vista Home Premium and Acrobat 8 Pro is a legal paid-for version and I hadn't had this problem until maybe a couple months ago. But then with some so-called MS updates, I've had several oddities crop up in other programs.
In a nutshell, here's what's happening:
(1) "Adobe Acrobat 8 has stopped working" popups appear when the program isn't even open nor has been used for a while.
(2) When the program is open and I get the popup (always and several times during a session), the program continues to run with no problem.
(3) When I click "Close Program" in the popup, the popup disappears but Acrobat continues to run just fine.
(4) No problem closing Acrobat 8 using the standard "X" in top right corner. Other than the very annoying popups, it seems to work fine.
(5) I've been using Acrobat 8 Pro for about a year with absolutely no issues until this began about two months ago.
BTW, I did a dearch and found a couple related topics but no one reporting the same issue I'm experiencing.
DC

Tim,
Tried your suggestion and still getting the popups. Also did a program repair via control panel. I've tried about everything now with no change. I'm sure it has something to do with one or more Windows update(s) since it all of a sudden began after updates a couple months ago but it'd be very difficult to pinpoint which one(s). I only use this program in the work I do for a local magazine to send page proofs to our proofer. The owner purchased it, so maybe I can talk him into buying an update. Hey, it's a write-off !
DC

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