Adobe Reader XI, Mac OS 10.9.2, internal error

Greetings,
I get the "an internal error has occurred" message when I start the Adobe Reader program up for the first time. I've used app delete, deleted relevant files by hand, re-installed, repaired permissions, and tried older versions, several times and all with the same result. What do I need to do?

phatoliver wrote:
Someting in my user folder then?
Yep... just what... is hard to troubleshoot from here.
When you deleted files there are five places to look for EVERYTHING.
1. Applications - Adobe Reader app
2. Mac HD\Library\Internet Plug-ins - AdobePDFViewer.plugin and AdobePDFViewerNPAPI.plugin
3. Mac HD\Library\Application Support\Adobe\HelpCfg\en_US - Reader.helpcfg
4. Mac HD\Library\Application Support\Adobe - the Reader folder (the entire folder)
5. [user]\Library\Preferences - com.Adobe.Reader.plist (Hold the "Option" key and click "Go" from the Finder menu to access the [user]\library folder)
DId you trash EVERYTHING listed there?

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