Adobe Reader X flaws - very annoyed

If you hide toolbars in Reader X, the only way to get it back is to press F8. Problem: some users don't KNOW you can press F8 to get it back. Even if you restart the program, you won't get it back. No, right clicking won't help you either. Hence it's a design flaw, a dumb idea: if you lose your toolbar, there's no indication how to get it back. That's bad, it's just stupid.
I just now was using it and I hid the menu bar by pressing F9. Surprise: there's NO WAY to get the menu bar back except to press F9. Once again, what if the user doesn't know that?? What are you supposed to do?? What if you're using someone else's computer and you don't know how to reshow the toolbar or menu bar??
This is really annoying, that they would make it like that. Also, is there a place I can directly complain to Adobe? Someone wasn't thinking!!

One more thing: if you view the task pane in a Reader doc, it's impossible or very difficuly to turn it off, unless you close Reader.
Once again, this is very poor design. You should be able to close it in an obvious way, like a menu option or an X on the task pane.

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Mr Thetao my intention is not conclude version, but to say how primitive is the app is.
Adobe Reader v 2.5 (192) which is available at quick office has great features http://www.quickoffice.com/adobe_reader/ I did used is on my old E71 and it is great.
But though Nokia says its version is 2.5(202), why it is so primitive, it has no features execept opening a pdf file ( am talking about on E72, I don't know about it functionality on e73)
Non of the below features are there in e72 Adobe reader v 2.5(202)
Adobe Reader LE 2.5 Features
View documents easier with text-reflow to eliminate left-right scrolling
Get accurate renderings of content, images, complex layouts, and formatting
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See smoother shading and transparencies rendered in documents
Rotate pages in horizontally or vertically to maximize the viewing area
Navigate PDF files quickly using embedded bookmarks
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