Adobe Reader X: offline help file?

hello,
I'd like the F1 link on the Help Menu to open a local offline Help file, not start my browser to go to Adobe's online HTML help pages. Is this possible? Where do I find the necessary file(s)?
I already have saved the reader_X_help.pdf file available via a link on the online Adobe pages, which I certainly will read to get the maximum out of the reader, but context-sensitive F1 key offline help is very convenient and much faster than starting my browser.

Does anyone know were I can obtain the French version of the help pdf?
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/reader/using/reader_X_help.pdf
I've tried changing the language local as per Adobe's suggestions to fr_FR, fr_CA, and CA_fr.
It is always redirected to the en_US link above.

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From:   Ankit_Jain <[email protected]>
To:     SusanPleso <[email protected]>
Date:   10/19/2011 12:56 AM
Subject:        Adobe Reader does not recognize file name
(filename10.5.11.pdf) but does in Adobe Standard 9. Why?
Re: Adobe Reader does not recognize file name (filename10.5.11.pdf) but
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