Adobe Reader 8.1.2 on Linux: Nothing happens

Hi,
I have installed Adobe Reader 8.1.2 on Linux (Scientific Linux 4.6, a redhat 4 derivate) a month ago and it worked.
Because of some problems related to other software I had to reinstall Adobe Reader completely new. The installation worked so far (no error messages), but when I start it nothing happens. No window is created, and no error message displayed.
What the hell is going on? Any ideas what to check? Maybe some crap from the old installation is still somewhere?
Cheers
Alex

Hi,
I have installed it from a tarball (rpm does not work for some reasons), after I have removed the directory
/opt/Adobe
where it is installed.
After I have removed the folder .adobe and tried to start acroreader, I saw a splash-screen very briefly. When starting the code again, there was no splashscreen any more.
After renaming plug_ins into something else, the behavious does not change. brief splash-screen after removing .adobe, nothing otherwise.
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