Acrobat X Standard Opens PDF files then closes

I installed Acrobat X Standard on a Windows XP SP3 box. When I rebooted and had the user logon Acrobat would open a PDF but then close after a short period of time. There was no error message. The PDF document was reopened and then immediately closed after the user clicked on the document. What could be causing this behavior?
The user is a standard user.

Have they tried to open Acrobat first and see if it stays open, then open the document from the file menu? When trouble shooting such problems, the first step is to try different options to see what works.

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