Adobe Acrobat Updater keeps offering update, but I can't update manually. Is this a trojan?

Every couple of days I get a panel popping up offering an update to Acrobat 9.4.6 -- looks like this:
But if I go to the adobe downloads site and download AcroProUpd946_all.dmg and run it, the installer does not recognize that my Adobe Acrobat Pro (version 9.2.0) is eligible for the upgrade -- it's just greyed out when I try to select it when the updater asks me to locate the executable that I wish to have upgraded.

The 9.4.6 update is not cumulative. It needs 9.4.5, which needs the update before that, etc. If there's any sort of cumulative update that can update from 9.2 all the way to 9.4.x, I can't find it.
For further information or assistance, you'll be more likely to get help in Adobe's own forums.
Regards.

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