Adobe Reader X - Save Button is greyed out

Hi,
the "Save" Button is greyed out with every PDF File.
File -> Save is also grey
File -> Save as... is functional.
Where's the Problem?

What I've been doing is using the keyboard command Ctrl+Shift+S, which brings up the Save As... dialog box.
Like thinksink, I receive PDFs by email. I scan documents using our printer/scanner/fax machine, and it sends the documents to my email account as PDF files. By default, the documents are named "scan.pdf", and it is inconvenient to type in a different document title before sending. So, when scan.pdf arrives in my inbox, I open the file to ensure that the document has scanned correctly, and if it has, I save it to the appropriate folder on my drive.
In Reader 9, I could click the Save... button (which was NOT greyed out), and the Save As... dialog box would open. I think the first time I did that, I was shown a warning that changes to the document could not be saved and if I wanted to save it, I would have to save it to a file with a different name. Since this is exactly what I intended to do, everything worked great. And, I didn't have to see the warning every time because there was a "Don't show me this again" check box.
Another related annoying change from Reader 9 is that Reader X doesn't remember what folder I saved the last document to. In the Save As... dialog box, the saving process for each document always starts in the temporary folder that Outlook stores attachments in, and I have to work my way through the directory tree to save each file. This occurs even when I leave the application running and just close the last document.

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