Adobe Reader X 10.1.1.33 Installer Puts Gibberish In Windows Registry

Operating system: Windows 7 x64 SP1.
The Adobe Reader X version 10.1.1.33 Installer creates sixteen values in your Windows Registry that are all gibberish.
Take a look at the values created under the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\P roducts\68AB67CA7DA73301B744AA0100000010\Features
How does all this incorrect data affect the running of Adobe Reader?
This invalid data does cause a problem with a program I use to examine the Windows registry. Upon further examination the data in the "Help" value contains and invalid character in position 82 (0x0002).
Can anybody from Adobe tell me when this bug might be fixed?

The program I was using, which alerted me to the problem, takes a snapshot of the registry and creates an .XML file. When this file is opened in Internet Explorer 9 it only displays a blank page instead of a tree view of the registry. Using the developement tools, that come with IE9, I was able to determine that the reason it displays a blank page was that it halts when it comes to an invalid data character in the .XML file. I then opened regedit and examined the "Help" data value in the registry to see if the 0x0002 character was actually in there, and it was.
The whole point of my post is not the invalid character in the registry but all the junk that is put there by the Adobe Reader installer.
Can somebody from Adobe please comment as to why your installer is putting what appears to be alot of junk into the Windows Registry?
thanks,

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