Acrobat x stopped working....

A few days ago while viewing a .PDF Acrobat Pro X abruptly disappeared. Since then, it will no longer start under any circumstance. Win 7 x64
Tried the following.
   1.) Control Panel, Programs, Programs and Features, Adobe Acrobat X Pro - English, Francais, Deutsch, Change, Repair.   - *No Change in Behavior. Program will not start *
2.) Attempted the following suggestions found here:
   http://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/error-pdf-creation-cannot-continue.html
   Solution 2 did nothing. Solution 3 prompted me to enter my Acrobat X Pro serial number. I entered my CS6 Master Collection serial number that was emailed to me by Adobe. It told me I have an incorrect serial number and would not allow me to continue.
Adobe - I ask that you please look into this issue as soon as possible and post a fix. I have almost 3 hours tied up into trying to resolve this issue as I can no longer open any .PDF file on my machine. I also see countless other posts on the same issue with no permanent resolve.
Thank you.

Well, don't know that this will work for anyone else, or if it will work in my work environment, but it seems to have fixed my home installation:
1. Unistalled Win7/64 installation of Acrobat X.
2. Reboot.
3. Open Adobe Application Manager.
4. Choose to "install" Acrobat X Pro.
5. Enjoy. It never asked for my serial key (which was obviously good when I installed the CS6 package), and none of the CS6 apps are asking for it now, including Acrobat X.
I think I'm stable here at home. I'll check again on Monday at work and see if the same approach solves that problem.
UPDATE: Came in to work on Monday, did the same basic approach (uninstall the version of Adobe Acrobat I had rolled back to), rebooted, then used Adobe Application Manager to install Adobe Acrobat X. Again it did not ask for a serial key, and now the installation seems stable and working. Other Adobe apps also seem stable and working.
UPDATE #2: Un-f**king-believable. After several weeks of again working properly it's gone into the same tail-spin again. I'll try one of the other fixes on here this time, but do you think I'll buy CS7 when it first comes out? No f**king way. At least not for the first 6 months or so. I still can't believe that Adobe blithefully ignores this issue. A ton of pros use these programs, but my faith in Adobe's been shaken severely. Oh, and if it's a big surprise to anybody, it's been exactly 30 days since my last "fix" of this problem. I should be sending Adobe a bill. Or a refund request. Hey, maybe that'll give me something to do with all the time I'm NOT working.
UPDATE#3: Well, I tried the photoshop/deactivate/restart-in-trial-mode/reactivate dance of a thousand deaths, and it appears to be working. Wanna bet it goes south again in 30 days? But at least I'm back to working now <exasperated sigh>...

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