Air Drop Painfully Slow on MacBook Retina with 10.8.2

Hi
My Retina MacBook works pretty fine and wireless networking is stable - unless I try to send a file to my girlfriend's identical Mac via Air Drop. The actual transfer is painfully slow and all other connections such as loading webpages start to stutter as well.
The OS X firewall is switched off since I use Little Snitch 3 to check incoming traffic. But even when Little Snitch is switched off, the symptoms persist.
Any ideas what could be the problem?
Cheers, -sven

Late late last night I solved the problem
I have both Adobe Acrobat X Pro and Adobe Reader X
I could neither update Reader nor install Reader X1.
On a hunch, I launched Acrobat Pro , was notified of update which I could not install,either.
Same error message about a changed environment as I had received when unable to update Reader .
Recalling I had similar Adobe issue one or more years ago, I UNINSTALLED Acrobat Pro and reinstalled from scratch
- I was then able to upgrade Acrobat Pro X
- I was able to install Reader Xl

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