Acrobat pro says corrupt, reader works fine..

ok so i have just rolled out an application built in php which generates pdf reports.
the reports open fine on my machine, I'm using an old version 6 reader.
they open fine on one of the clients machines, running the latest reader (i installed it yesterday)
the other 2 machine are running acrobat, one version 6, one version 7 pro - but both also have reader installed.
BOTH of the full acrobat machines report ' this pdf is corrupted and cannot be repaired'
I cleared cache, told both not to open in the browser, on both machines, same error.
i saved instead - tried to open, same error, but transferring it via mem stick, the same file opens on the reader only machine...
Should i just remove the full acrobat software and replace it with a free pdf maker, since that's all the use pro for?
Any other ideas i can try before this, i'd rather not waste their purchase of pro.

He advised me to 'back up' everything and 'reformat' the computer.
I have been looking at how to do these tasks - not 100% on both.
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