Acrobat entangled in TCS2, won't run alone now that TCS2 trial is over

Platform: Windows Vista
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I recently installed the trial version of the Technical Communication Suite 2 to try out this software for my company (this included special TCS versions of FrameMaker, Acrobat, RoboHelp, and Captivate). My trial period has now expired.
FrameMaker 9 and Captivate 4 work just the way it used to before the TCS 2 trial, but when I try to open Acrobat (from Program Files, from an existing PDF, or from within FrameMaker 9), I receive the following error message: "Adobe Acrobat was installed as part of a suite. To enable Adobe Acrobat, please start another component of this suite (such as Adobe Photoshop)."
I assume it is attempting to open the TCS version of Acrobat, for which the trial period has expired. But why doesn't it revert to my licensed version, as FrameMaker and Captivate did? I've tried opening Photoshop, opening FM, opening Captivate, and different methods of accessing Acrobat. No dice. I really don't want to uninstall the TCS unless I have to, since we might purchase it (and also it takes an hour to uninstall or reinstall).
Does anyone know what magic incantation I need to execute on my computer to get back to my simple Acrobat life?

I figured out the answer using this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/443753
Apparently, TCS2 did uninstall my previous stand-alone version of Acrobat. I uninstalled the TCS2 version of Acrobat, which should have been enough, but Adobe products leave behind some "residue" that you can't see from the Install/Uninstall Programs dialog (at least on Windows platforms). I downloaded the Cleanup Utility and carefully deleted the extra Adobe Acrobat files that it found, and then was able to successfully install stand-alone Acrobat again. Woohoo.

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