Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 freezes 5 seconds after launch

We have installed Acrobat pro on a windows xp machine. Acrobat seems to freeze about 5 seconds after we launch it. Someone told up to delete the autoupdater plugin folders on the PC but this didn't seem to make any difference. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Good Morning,
I talked with customer care this morning and they tell me that this is not an deactivation/activation issue since my application isn’t launching correctly. They gave me a meaningless document to troubleshoot launching issues with the suite. It seems that all other applications in the suite launch fine like photoshop, illustrator, etc. It is only acrobat that hangs on launch. However, I did notice that when I try to close out of the other applications like illustrator, the application will hang and I will actually get an application hang message in the event viewer.

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