Acrobat 8 Professional disappeared

In late September 2006 (I think), I purchased and downloaded Acrobat 8 Professional for Macintosh. A couple of months ago, it would not update, and altho I don't recall exactly what the pop-up said as a reason, I seem to recall that it said I needed to re-install Acrobat. When I got the message, I didn't have time to fool around with it. Now, the program no longer appears to exist on my hard drive. Although the "Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional" folder still exists and contains some files (i.e., three read me files, Acrobat Uninstaller, and Acrobat Distiller) there is no Acrobat 8 Professional application.
Any idea what happened and how to re-install?
Many thanks,
Rick

Sorry but there's not much us fellow c=users can do in this case. You will have to call Adobe customer support.
Two possible issues will be:
1. they don't support downloads of versions that far back.
2. They won't have any record of your purchase and will deny support.
If I had to guess (and going by other people that have came in here), I would say their only suggestion would be to purchase the new version of Acrobat...at full prive (not upgrade price).
This is one of those times I hope I'm wrong.

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