Acrobat 9 Trying to open all my PDFs at once

I've been using Acrobat 9 everyday for a coupel years. All of a sudden when I try to open a PDF Acrobat9 tries to open seemingly hundreds of PDFs until I get an error that a maximum number of files allowed to be opened has been reached. Then My computer freezes up and I can't do anything. I got around the issue by uninstalling and re-installing it, but I'd like to know how to prevent or stop this from happening in the future.

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