Adobe Reader XI - javascript alert boxes appearing behind modal IE window

Hi - I am experiencing the following issue:
I am running Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9 and Acrobat Reader XI. I am opening a pdf document in an IE modal dialog usiing the showModalDialog() function. My pdf document has a simple button which will display an app.alert box. The problem is that the alert box now appears in the back of the modal dialog, something it did not do before the upgrade to Reader version XI. This means that the user is forced to move the modal dialog out of the way to see and to click "OK" on the alert box.
It doesn't seem like this is limited to app.alert boxes either. I tested on a new WIN7 machine and installed Reader XI. Making sure not to have opened Reader XI, I opened my pdf file in the modal window and it brought up the Reader XI EULA window and it was behind the modal dialog as well.
Any help would be appreciated, I've tested on multiple machines and the problem seems to be with Reader XI & Internet Explorer 9, running on a Win7 OS. Thanks.

Hello me_339,
Yes, I'm also seeing the same behavior in Reader XI, and in Reader X, it works just fine. For the time being, uncheck 'Enable Protected Mode at startup' from 'Preferences > Security (Enhanced)' to avoid this situation.

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