Acrobat 9 - Comment toolbar drops off in browser window

Hello,
We use a browser environment to comment on PDF documents and sometimes (about 5% of the time) with Acrobat 9 the "Comment" toolbar option does not appear (this does not happen with earlier versions of Acrobat). If I close the browser and Acrobat down then restart it appears again.
Does anyone know why this might sometimes happen?
Thanks.

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