Acrobat XI not activated!

My first post here and I'm not a high end user so please be patient with my ignorance    
I've seen previous threads on this issue in various places, but don't think solutions in these will work for me.
I have had Acrobat XI for about 5 months now.  All was working fine.
THis morning when I tried to print: Message popup says Acrobat is not activated.
So I reinstalled.
and it works
BUT
It now says I am using a trial version.  WTH?  I PAID for this!.  I am in a large company and have a stand-alone version installed.
SO what now??
Ron

WHOAA. 
Further to the previous post.
Now I see that the TRIAL version I'm using is the PREVIOUSLY INSTALLEND ACROBAT 8
WHAT?????????????
ROn

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