Acrobat 8 Pro will not open without other Adobe Suite program running

I am running Acrobat Pro 8 on a new Mac (OS X 10.5.4) and it used to work just fine without CS3 installed. Now, all of a sudden (without me changing anything) it refuses to open a pdf saying that another Adobe Suite program must be open for acrobat to run. Don't have any other programs installed to open, really annoying because I want to read pdfs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is odd. Normally you get that message if, and only if, Creative
Suite is installed. In the case where Creative Suite is installed, you
have to run some other CS application, once, to get the licensing
done.
Maybe someone installed a demo of CS3, something like that. Check for
other Creative Suite applications, even if they weren't expected.
Aandi Inston

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