Acrobat Reader 8 and 10 coexistence on Windows 7: How to choose the default version

My organisation has installed Acrobat 8 and then Acrobat 10 with the option to keep the version 8 installed. This works fine as we can start both versions independently (after making sure one or the other verion is not running).
One of the old application we use only works with acrobat reader 8 (the only reason why kept it!) but when I try to generate a PDF using PDF creator, the way the application works, acrobat reader X is called when it should be calling reader 8 (the app reads an ini file where the path to 8 is specified).
I found a workaround to make the app call the 8 without touching the file association (when you double click on a pdf, it is opened with reader X) but i am not sure it is "supported" :
     in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\AcroRd32.exe i have changed the "default" value to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 8.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe" and left the "Path" value set to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe"
Do you think this could be a correct solution to our problem so that we can make the changes to the app to work properly on X and get rid of reader 8?
any help would be appreciated!

And in addition to Julios advice (9.x is a great release also in my opinion): You should be aware that you have to upgrade in a couple of small steps so that the config can be migrated. I would first upgrade to the latest 8.0 release and then to the latest 8.2. That should go really smooth. The next upgrade to 8.4 will need many manual corrections for the NAT-migration as the automatic migration has never worked well for my ASAs and I have never heard that anyone was happy with the result of the automatic migration. After that, the last step to the latest v9 will again run quite smooth.
But as usual, read the release-notes to be aware of problems that are specific to your environment.
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