Acrobat Reader Won't Unload

I'm using Acrobat Reader XI on Windows 7. It never unloads when I exit the program, so I end up with multiple copies eating up memory and CPU usage. What gives?

Both.
I'm an academic, and in the course of an average day I read a *lot* of PDF files. I have to keep Process Explorer running all the time so I can manually kill the reader before it cripples my machine.
Thanks for responding.
Cheers,
Ac

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