Acrobat 8 Save-As Dialog

OK, this is really trivial, but to me very annoying. When I save a file from Adobe Acrobat (Pro 8), I almost always go to type a path, e.g.:
c:\books\newbook.pdf
and Acrobat tells me:
"The characters cannot be used in a file name: \/:.." etc
I have to pick up the mouse and navigate to the directory where I want to save the file. I understand what the error message is saying, but why can't I just type a path? I can do that when I OPEN a file, but not when I SAVE one. Surely that's not right?
The help text says:
"Save a copy of a PDF
Choose File > Save As (or Save A Copy, if Save As is not shown).
In the Save As dialog box, enter the filename and *location*, and click Save."
but I am not permitted to enter a "location" (path).
Or is this configurable somewhere?
Thanks

I'll have to check. Think my work desktop is at AA8.2.4. Maybe that will do it. I just noticed that they have redone the Adobe web site again and a lot of the "dropdown" menus are not dropping down. You have to go through multiple pages now to get the the updates or do a search on the updates! Leave it to web designers to make things difficult.
The university ball game must be starting. Just had a jet fly-by! Bill

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