Acrobat icons all generic with no preview?

After reinstalling Acrobat 9 pro on a new machine all adobe pdf icons are the generic Adobe icon with no first page preview on them. Have tried everying from the forum so far but no success.
any help would be greatly appreciated!

Checked those options, and the user had already unchecked it in the hopes of resolving the problem...
I misspoke, it's not the menu bar, it's the toolbar. I'll update the post.
I haven't done an update on it, that was going to be my next step. If that doesn't work, I may just completely uninstall and re-install it.
Thanks for the help.

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