Acrobat PDF Toolbar in Internet Explorer 7 Disappears

I have the Adobe Acrobat Web PDF Converter addin on IE7 under WinXP Pro. The toolbar for the function appears normally when I am browsing in the first tab. If I open another tab for browsing, the PDF toolbar disappears. It is listed in View/Toolbars, but it is deselected for viewing and cannot be selected; if you select it to display, it simply does nothing.
In other words I always have the PDF toolbar displayed and functioning in the first tab, but for any subsequent tabs it is not present. This happens even though the toolbars are locked, it just disappears when I select a secondary tab.
Any ideas? Is this an Acrobat bug or not?
Pete B

I'll think about it. I can live with it only being functional in one tab, and I do not see much in A8 Pro that I use that would justify $150+ for the upgrade (I am just a retired guy with no active employment and limited income).
The only reason I have the Pro version now is for the forms features and the PDF driver, I do not use much of anything else beyond the standard functions. And act8ually I have several other programs that have a PDF converter in them to save a file as a PDF.
However, I may consider an upgrade to A8 Standard, is this toolbar functionality provided in that version? Also, the product info is unclear, does A8 Std have a form tool that I can use on a scanned form to provide fillable form fields like I can with A7 Pro?
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