Adobe Reader 9.3.4 causes poor screen resolution and unreadable pdf documents. Why?

When I open Reader (9.3.4) the screen resolution becomes very poor - like a color monitor from the early 80's - and text in pdf documents is highlighted black or some other random color, making it unreadable.  This has been the case since I upgraded from Reader 8 recently. Any ideas on how to fix this?

To those that tried to assist me with trying to get Reader to display
correctly.  Thanks for your assistance.
I resolved the problem  by doing a backup of all my files, then formatting the hard drive and reinstalling all programs, from XP to Trend Micro, to Office 2003 and finally Reader 9.
The problem has gone and the speed and stability of my PC has been greatly improved.

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