Acrobat Std/Pro 8 addin for Outlook causing causing corruption of email graphics & pollution of Outl

Our IT Support team, in conjunction with Microsoft Premier Support, has been investigating reports of email messages not correctly displaying graphics. Microsoft Premier Support has identified the Adobe PDFmaker addin for Microsoft Outlook as the cause.
When active, the Adobe PDFmaker addin stops Outlook from clearing it's temporary working folder, resulting in this folder becoming 'pollulted' over time, and ultimately affecting the ability of Outlook to use the temporary working folder for caching graphics received in emails.
Please follow the below steps to replicate the issue.
(Note: our testing has been performed with Adobe Acrobat Standard / Professional version 8.1.2 and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 SP2 and SP3 running from Windows XP SP2)
Steps to replicate
==================
1. Ensure Adobe Acrobat Standard or Professional is installed to the machine
2. Ensure Microsoft Outlook is closed
3. Identify the location of your Outlook temporary working folder. This information can be obtained from the registry key: HKEY_CURENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security\OutlookSecureTempFolder
4. Using Explorer, delete the contents of the Outlook temporary working folder (eg. C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK91)
5. Once the Outlook temporary working folder is empty, open Microsoft Outlook, and open an email message containing graphics
6. Observe that the Outlook temporary working folder now contains the supporting JPG images that are loaded by the email :
7. Close Microsoft Outlook
8. Wait for 30 seconds, and re-open Microsoft Outlook
9. Re-open the same email message containing embedded graphic images, confirm that the graphics are correctly displayed.
10. Close the email, then close Microsoft Outlook
11. Observe that the Outlook temporary working folder now contains a second copy of the supporting JPG images that are loaded by the email
This is a bug. The expected behaviour of Microsoft Outlook would be that the above files should be automatically deleted from the Outlook temporary folder when the email is closed.
With continued use the Outlook temporary folder will continue to grow as the user opens & closes emails with embedded graphics, as the files in this folder are not being automatically deleted when no longer accessed by Microsoft Outlook. Eventually this will affect the performance of Outlook and ultimately result in the graphic images not being displayed in any email messages.
The Workaround
==============
Microsoft have recommended the below registry entry be modified in order to rectify this issue:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins\PDFMOutlook.PDFMOutlook\LoadBe havior
The value of the LoadBehavior key needs to be changed from "3" to "2" to disable the Adobe PDFMaker addin from Microsoft Outlook.
We have tested Microsoft's recommendation and confirmed that it resolves the above symptoms.

William,
Thanks for the report. May I ask that you file a bug report so that
Adobe will be officially aware of the issue and fix. Maybe it will be
fixed or the solution posted in the knowledgebase.
Mike

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