Acrobat won't work in Excel

My Acrobat 8 (updated with the latest downloads) works fine in Word, Access, and everything else. But inside of EXCEL, it refuses to work. If I go directly to PRINT and choose Acrobat, it tells me the produce is not activated. But it IS.
If I reboot the machine, it works fine a couple of times, but after coming back from a "hibernation" I get the same message.
Any ideas?

I have a similar problem only on FireFox (currently running 26.0) with WIndows7 PRO 64 bit. On my old XP machine the add-on allows using "Using Adobe Reader in FireFox" as an option for Adobe Acrobat Document and the document opens. In my WIN7 the only option is "ask" or "Use Adobe Reader" (acroread32) and both options then only present me with a download window (document does not open).
Plugin is up to date and this used to work properly prior to Version 24 (I think 23 was the last version it worked properly, but I'm not sure at this point). I even uninstalled and re-installed Acrobat Reader.
Any help would be appreciated.

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