Acrobat 9 Pro possessed, opening docs on its own. What do I do?

I scanned a document and printed to Adobe Acrobat. This opened the Acrobat
program. At some point, either when I was last in Acrobat or today when I told
the program to print to Acrobat, Acrobat seems to think I want several hundred
files opened at once, and proceeds to do so. They seem to be randomly selected
from my collection of PDF docs. I eventually get an error message saying I've
opened too many, please close some. I click ok and absolutely nothing happens
(as far as I can tell). As long as the error message is up I can't close the open docs (but again, OK does nothing).
When I go to the toolbar, all options are grayed out.
The only thing I can do is Force Quit, but when I re-open the same thing happens
all over again (it appears that the same docs are opening, in the same order).
Can anyone tell me how to stop this demon-possession and prevent it from
happening in the future?
With gratitude,
Heidi

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