Acrobat X offline help

Hi,
i have just noticed that Adobe Acrobat X has no oflline help function anymore. Every time when hitting F1 or chosing help from the menu Acrobat is trying to connect to the internet. Of course it can not connect through an authentication proxy and even if it could it would not be allowed in our environment. After some seconds,where the application is not responding, Acrobat is launching the standard browser, but not with the help site for the product, just with the standard home page of the browser.
Is there some workaround for this behavior? I found a way to prevent the Acrobat itself trying to connect to the internet and to launch the browser immediately, but still not with the proper help site.

Here you go: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/865/cpsid_86505.html
The steps involve:
Disabling Help menu item.
Adding a custom menu item.
Installing PDF help somewhere on your network.
hth,
Ben

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