Actobat 9 Execute Menu Item problem

I have a new PC with Window 7 and have successfully loaded Acrobat 9 pro - but a lot of the Acrobat functionality is now missing (it all worked under the XP platform). For example, when creating a form, using a buttom with an 'Execute menu item' command is not possible - it's blank actually. As this is the most useful tool within Acrobat forms it's really annoying. I have upgraded to 9.4.1 which is supposed to be Window 7 compatible but no luck. I've unistalled and reinstalled and called Adobe support (4 hours!) and still no solution.
Can anyone help me?

After selecting this action you're supposed to go to the actual menus and
select the menu item that should be executed. This is instead of choosing it
from a list. Did you try that?

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