Acrobat 8 Standard Activation Problems

I recently installed Adobe Acrobat 8.0 on my Lenova T61 laptop, and I'm having trouble using the PDF printer within Internet Explorer. I'm getting an error saying that I need to activate Acrobat first. Acrobat opens ok, but when I go to Help, Activate, the Activate command is grayed-out.
I know that I tested it after installation, but don't remember if I ever tested IE. It continues to work ok from other apps, such as MS Office.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,

I completely uninstalled Acrobat, and reinstalled it, and am still having the same problem. Seems to work fine everywhere but IE.
Can anyone offer any other suggestions on this?
Thanks,

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