Adobe folders/files on users' windows profile

Since the upgrade to Adobe Reader 9, we've noticed that user's windows profile size have significantly increased. And we are consistently having to monitor our server (Windows 2003) for diskspace issues. Normally, user's profile size is about 8MB when running Adobe Reader 8.
Now, this folder C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe is using 217MB for each user.
Any ideas as to how/what/why this happen?
Please advise.

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